The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats

R. F. Outcault’s pioneering creation, the Yellow Kid, made the leap from newspaper comics to this single-issue book in 1897, published by G.W. Dillingham. Collecting the mischievous slum urchin’s earliest adventures, it stands as a landmark of pop culture, capturing the dawn of the American comic strip and the commercial power of a breakout character.