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Serial number is only on the spine. With an introduction by Dick de Boer entitled "The wonderful adventures of Thijs IJs are coming to an end". In 1933, Marten Toonder offered newspaper publisher R. Hazewinkel to provide a comic strip for the newspapers, but this offer was rejected because Hazewinkel already had Bruintje Beer's comics in the Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. However, when the Bruintje Bear comic strips had to be discontinued, Toonder received a request on January 8, 1934 to make a replacement comic series, this time not a Bruintje Bear, but a White Bear, which 'has descended to us from the Arctic regions, now Bruintje Bear. has left for other regions'. And so it happened. From 1934 to 1939, 52 stories by Thijs IJs, the White Bear, appeared in five Dutch newspapers. Brother Jan Gerhard Toonder wrote the rhyming texts and together with Phiny Dick, Marten Toonder drew and inked this precursor to Tom Poes. During those five years, Toonder learned the trade thoroughly and acquired the discipline to produce a comic strip episode with subtext every day. In 1941, thanks to this enormous experience, he was able to write his magnum opus and started the 'Adventures of Tom Poes'. The stories of Thijs IJs, the White Bear, in full in book form in 3 luxury volumes. All 52 stories that appeared in newspapers between 1934 and 1938. Version: sewn-bound in an imitation leather binding with binding stamping and with a glued-on front plate.
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