Litzka Raymond China Boy Comic Book Original

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Litzka Raymond China Boy Comic Book Original
This is the original, not the copy sold elsewhere on eBay.
3.5" x 7".  Good condition.
Litzka Raymond Gibson (1901-1996) performed as "The Great Litzka".
When Pearl decided to change her name for show business purposes it was proposed she should have a name with an exotic, Bohemian touch. Her friend suggested "Pearlitzka". She liked the Litzka part, which is what stuck, although she continued to sign documents and her passport as Pearl Litzka Gonser.”
She married Maurice Raymond in 1927 after her first husband, a musician, died. She was his assistant, as wells as an act on her own as a magician and harpist. Photographs of Litzka posing with her card-trick-assisting rooster "China Boy" appears in the Wilfrid Jonson books, Magic Tricks (1949) and Card Tricks (1950).
After Raymond died, she married Walter B. Gibson in 1949 with whom she assisted in his writing and coauthored several books.
She was awarded a "Special Fellowship" from the Academy of Magical Arts in 1995 as was elected into the Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame