-1945 Double Trouble

Betty Bacon Blunt’s fourth wordless novel, Double Trouble, follows up the ending of her 1st wordless story, Bet It’s a Boy, where she had given birth to twin girls. The overwhelmed new mother copes with the help of a grandmother and husband.

While pre-1960 wordless novels predominantly tackle grim social realism, Blunt’s work departs from this tradition with a noticeably lighter tone. Although some might question whether these stories belong on a site focused on the genre, this site takes an inclusive approach: if a work meets the strict definition of a wordless story, it belongs here, regardless of its mood.

Unlike Blunt’s first three books, this is done in black line drawings without the benefit of colour augmentations. Shortages during WW2 may explain this.

Publication Details

• Title: Double Trouble
• Author: Betty Bacon Blunt
• Illustrator: Betty Bacon Blunt
• Introduction: none
• Date of publication: 1945; 2nd printing September 1945
• Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
• Place of publication: New York
• Printer: ?
• Copyright: Betty Bacon Blunt
• Dimensions: 8 x 7 inches (not including the comb)
• Binding: red enamelled metal (a magnet sticks to it) comb. Some listings incorrectly refer to it as a spiral binding.
• Boards: illustrated cover has blue and yellow as opposed to the blue and gold of the earlier stories. The cover is a very heavy card resulting in some listings calling this a “hard cover”.
• Language: English
• Unpaginated; pages are thicker than a typical page and the paper appears to be acidic as all pages have browned
• Printed: verso and recto
• Edition: Trade only
• Printed from the original line drawings by lithograph

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