Little Annie Rooney Daily - 09/02/1935

wow jeff, these are really cool, and for the price , good lord, well bought

Hard to resist a few examples of these kind of inks for those kinds of prices. Although I wish that a few of them could be $20 Winsor McCay Little Nemo strips. Wouldn't that be a treat?

For a second I thought this said "Little Andy Rooney" and I thought it would be a strip about a kid who complains about everything. The reality is much better.

I don't see Andy Rooney ever having this positive of an attitude about Monday's! But now I want to see that alternate reality version of the strip! ;)

Man, who can we get to do that strip now?

Annie's optimism about the week on a Monday is so sweet and innocent! There was no internet to bring her down with divisive conversations first thing in the AM :-/ 

I lit out from Zero, I was trailed by Annie’s hound
Didn't get to sleep that night 'til the Monday came around

Set out biddin’ but I Hakes my time
A friend of the Darell is a friend of line
If I get home before daylight
Just might get some strip tonight

Ran into the Darrell, babe, he loaned me twenty bill
Spent the night as bidder and I take up all Zero

Not sure if this is what you meant, but the glue stains are what used to hold down the zip-a-tone, until the glue dried up so much and the zip popped off. Another great buy for only $20 bucks!

Zip-A-Tone was not a thing until two years later, when it launched in 1937. I guess McClure might have used Havy Q. R. Crowder's patented drawing sheets (which he started developing in the early 1920s) with a suitable adhesive. But that would have a very different overall effect. His invention consisted of a pad of pre-printed sheets of patterns and grids but on thin paper. Zip was the first commercial product (at least that I'm aware of) to use cellulose acetate to allow a transparent transfer medium for the screen tones. I feel a need to fall down a rabbit hole on this one and do some good ol' research!

Yes, printed sheets with various patterns existed before the Zip-a-Tone brand, but for the record,  I personally refer to all of it as Zip-a-Tone, because it's easier to do so. I suppose you could look for sellers who may have a bunch of Little Annie Rooney dailies from this time period for sale and if you're lucky enough to find someone who has a batch that would include this daily, you could always ask if they have it included in the lot and then ask them to show it to you. Easy peasy, no trouble at all! Or a library who may have them on microfiche!