Girls, Girls, Girls...

A few days ago, the prolific Michael Sporn posted a few drawings that originated with Jack Kinney, including a few pages of girls drawn by Fred Moore.

I noted in a comment that "All of the girls, except the very first one in Kinney’s caricature, are from the unofficial in-house publication “The Mousetrap” that was issued in 500 numbered copies around 1938 by “The Ward Ritchie Press.” Number 91 of these was reprinted as a facsimile in the late 70s. The original run had watercolors applied differently in each issue. As far as I remember, Ward Kimball was the Ward in “Ward Ritchie,” one of the original editors (perpetrators?) of the spiral-bound magazine."

To underline this, and for comparison, here are the two hand-colored pages, from two different original issues. I do not have the reprint of #91 close at hand, but I do remember that the two images below resemble each other more than they resemble this reprint, where the color application is concerned.

Mousetrap #268	Mousetrap #312