{"product_id":"9798881150976","title":"Bringing Up Father, Eighth Series: Edition 1924, Restoration 2024","description":"Bringing Up Father is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere the EIGHTH series\u003c\/b\u003e edited in 1924. New lay-out by\u003cbr\u003eComic Books Restore. The strip centers on an immigrant Irishman named Jiggs, a former hod carrier who came into wealth in the United States by winning a million dollars in a sweepstakes. Now nouveau-riche, he still longs to revert to his former working class habits and lifestyle. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage (known regionally as \"Jiggs dinner\"), and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by Maggie, his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) harridan of a wife, their lovely young daughter Nora, and infrequently their lazy son Ethelbert, later known as Sonny. Also a character presented in the strip (portrayed as a miserly borrower) was named, fittingly, Titus Canby (\"tight as can be\").","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46446843560177,"sku":"9798881150976","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9798881150976_p0.jpg?v=1765213900","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9798881150976","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}