LOT #19079.The magazine "Crocodile number 35" Odessa, 1911. Officially, the magazine Crocodile (considered) has been published since 1922, but it starts the issue in Odessa, where from 1911-1912. only 63 numbers were released, which represent an extreme rarity. Condition: satisfactory. ! 4 sheets are missing. Circulation: -
- The first "Crocodile" still comes from Odessa
In the years 1911-1912, the editorial office of the satirical magazine “Crocodile” was located on Gavannaya Street 13, which was created by the “Odessa News” feuilletonist B. Fleet and cartoonist F. Segal.
The Crocodile was read in Warsaw and Kremenchug, Tambov and Rostov, and the metropolitan magazines happened to pirate and “borrow” materials from it ...
Crocodile fought bribe-takers, anti-Semitism, etc. It was a democratic publication. After releasing 63 issues, the editors of Crocodile ceased to exist in 1912, and co-authors B. Flit and F. Segal after the February Revolution worked together in the “Journal of Revolutionary Satire” Bomb, moreover, F. Segal, in memory of the closed journal, took a pseudonym "F.Krokodilov".
And only then the Crocodile Magazine reappeared in 1922, first as an appendix to Rabochaya Gazeta, and was issued simultaneously with a large number of other satirical journals (for example, Zanoza, Projector, etc.). The symbol of the publication was the figure: a red crocodile with a fork -
