1922 Comic Life / Lot-O’-Fun Sporting Champions Set and Checklist

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	Comic Life Sporting Champions
Year	1922
Size	1 1/2″ x 2 5/8″
Images	Black and White
Type	Publications
Number in Set	8 / 16

1922 Comic Life / Lot-O’-Fun Sporting Champions Overview

1922 Comic Life Jack Dempsey Boxing These cards were distributed by Comic Life and Lot-O’-Fun publications.

Featuring black and white images, the cards were printed in panels of two with each panel being distributed in a given week in 1922. They were produced at the same time in each of the two publications. One week, Comic Life would distribute panels while Lot-O’-Fun would distribute their own.

Today, the cards can be found individually hand cut or in uncut panels. Individual hand cut cards are not given automatic ‘Authentic’ grades by third party graders and can/do receive numerical grades by at least PSA.

Most of the athletes will not be familiar to American collectors but two feature boxing legends Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier in the Comic Life set. Boxer Joe Beckett is found in the Lot-O’-Fun series.

The distribution for the cards was as follows:

Comic Life Series

September 30 – E. Barry and Georges Carpentier
October 7 – Thomas Burgess and Andrew Wilson
October 14 – Jack Dempsey and Donald McKinlay
October 21 – J.T. Howcroft and Harry Jones

Lot-O’-Fun Series

September 30 – Arthur Crimsdell and A.G. Hill
October 7 – Joe Beckett and Andrew Ducat
October 14 – Howard Baker and Tom Wilson
October 21 – A. Layton and W. Meredith

While two separate cards were printed on each panel, each set is sometimes cited as having only four cards as opposed to eight. The individual card numbers on each one clearly mean to suggest, however, that eight cards is the correct number for each complete issue.