[COMICS AND HUMOR]. Group of Two Newspapers with Comical Cartoons, including: Downing Gazette, Vol. I, No. 23. Portland, ME, December 6, 1831. Four 4to pages on one folding folio sheet. On rag paper. Each page approximately 354 x 252 mm. Toned, numerous horizontal creases at center, soiling, edgewear, several chips, marginal tears, ownership signature on upper margin of p. 1. Engraved masthead is a humorous image of a man picking his nose. On p. 3 is an article about the Rothschilds. And The World Sunday Comic Weekly. New York: The Press Publishing Co., May 15, 1898. 8 folio pages on folded folio sheets. Each page approximately 529 x 451 mm. Color illustrations on pp. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8. Toned, worn, chipped, with several tears, newsprint is brittle. This issue has cartoons lampooning the Spanish-American War, foreign imperialism, and baseball (on p. 8: ?The Barnyard Birdies and Beasts Open the Baseball Season,? depicting barnyard animals playing baseball).