During the 1930s, following the depression, newspapers starting including play money and stamps for children to collect. This premium helped to increase sales, as children would ask their parents to buy the newspaper to be able to read the Sunday comics and collect the money and stamps. Many of the stamps would be pasted into albums and are now difficult to find in good condition. Below are a few I have located through internet searches
Little Orphan Annie - 1932 by Harold Gray
Smitty was a newspaper comic strip created in the early 1920s by Walter Berndt. Syndicated nationally by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, it ran from November 27, 1922, to 1974 and brought Berndt a Reuben Award in 1969. From January 11, 1938 through 1974, Berndt also produced the comic strip Herby as a topper to Smitty on the Sunday page.
Texas Slim - 1932 by Ferd Johnson co-creator of Moon Mullins ran as part of Lovey Dovey strip
Kitty Higgins - 1932 Fred Willard co-creator of Moon Mullins
Baby Sister - 1932 created by Tack Knight, which ran with Little Folks
Old Doc Yak - 1932 Sidney Smith creator of The Gumps
The Absent Minded Professor - 1932 by Carl Ed creator of Harold Teen
Looie Blooie - 1932 Martin Branner creator of Winnie Winkle - First series Rinkydink stamps
That Phoney Nickel - 1931 Frank King creator of Gasoline Alley
Cigarette Sadie - 1932 Chester Gould creator of Dick Tracy
Tailspin Tommy was an aviation-adventure comic strip about a youthful pilot, "Tailspin" Tommy Tomkins. Originally illustrated by Hal Forrest and initially distributed by John Neville Wheeler's Bell Syndicate and then by United Feature Syndicate, the strip had a 14-year run from May 21, 1928 to March 15, 1942.
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