Monday, May 16, 2022
Obscurity of the Day: Stockworth
When you read Dilbert have you ever wondered what the strip might be like if it was written from the perspective of the company's CEO? Well, wonder no longer, because Stockworth provided just such a strip, and did it almost a decade before Dilbert became the phenomenon of the 1990s.
Stockworth was a strip about the CEO of a non-specific corporation, and he deals with fools, pests and irritants all the way up and down the org-chart, not to mention stockholders, journalists and customers. The strip is a little more genteel and grounded in reality than Dilbert, as befits the view from the top down instead of the bottom up. But when the strip hit its marks it was just like Dilbert -- not just funny, but very insightful about the corporate world.
You would think that a strip about big business would be distributed through the corporate syndication channel, but Stockworth came into being as a self-syndicated strip. It was created by two business consultants, Hinda Sterling (art) and Herb L. Selesnick (writing), and was initially sold as a feature for the Boston Globe, debuting there August 2 1982. A year later the creators signed up for distribution through the New York Times Syndication Sales company, basically a black hole from whence no comic strip can ever become a success. After being distributed by that company from August 29 1983* to October 13 1984** with little to show for it, Sterling and Selesnick returned to the realm of self-syndication. They stuck with the do-it-yourself route for at least another year and a half until March 18 1986** before throwing in the towel, or at least losing the last paper I can find running it.
The strip was collected in book form three years later, as Stockworth: An American CEO, once again self-published. If you have an interest in business humor from the perspective of the head honcho, I highly recommend it.
* Source: Boston Globe
** Source: Belleville News-Democrat
Labels: Obscurities
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Wish You Were Here, from John Stanley
John Stanley barely qualifies for appearing here on Stripper's Guide, but he sneaks in by having ghosted the Little Lulu newspaper comic strip for awhile in 1969. This card is not signed, but I can't imagine anyone but John Stanley having drawn a face like that.
This card was issued by Colourpicture of Boston Massachusetts as part of their Plastichrome line; this card is coded as P6515. The card is undated and unused, but I'm guessing 1950s or 60s?
Labels: Wish You Were Here
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Herriman Saturday: April 3 1910
April 3 1910 -- Such is the public's insatiable interest in the upcoming Fight of the Century that Herriman posits a man letting his house burn down in order to goggle at Jeffries eating a meal.
Labels: Herriman's LA Examiner Cartoons
Friday, May 13, 2022
Obscurity of the Day: Look Out for the Jinx
Hal Coffman put most of his efforts at Hearst into producing editorial cartoons for the Arthur Brisbane editorials, but he was also sometimes tapped early on to contribute a strip here and there.
In the case of Look Out for the Jinx, though, it appears not to have run in the Hearst flagship papers, and so was not caught by my Hearst indexers who worked off of the New York American and Journal. For some reason I can only find this strip running in the Washington Evening Star, not part of the Hearst chain, where it appeared sporadically from June to September 1911. It was definitely syndicated by Hearst, though, as a few examples show a copyright to National News Association, one of the many Hearst sub-companies.
The strip is good fun. A little imp called The Jinx is the personification of trouble, and he causes, or at least appears as an eyewitness, to all sorts of bad outcomes. The only problem with the strip is that it is basically a rehash of Jonah, A Whale for Trouble, which Frank King penned a year before for the Chicago Tribune.
Labels: Obscurities
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Obscurity of the Day: Gloria
It's quite ironic that the Associated Press decided to get into the comic strip syndicate game. They put together a fine roster of features but then were too embarrassed to admit that their serious news agency was now in the business of distributing lighthearted fun, so they practically made the whole division a corporate secret.
Julian Ollendorff's Gloria was on the original roster of features when the syndicate debuted on March 17 1930. Ollendorff's fast-paced, bubbly tale of a beautiful girl was the newspaper page equivalent of the popular movies of the day. Lots of snarky, sophisticated dialogue, jet-setting locales, attractive high society people -- it was just what the doctor ordered for a country learning what it means to be in a Great Depression.
Unfortunately, Ollendorff's Gloria was not to last very long. The strip ended after a one-year contract on March 16 1931; evidently either the syndicate was unhappy with it or Ollendorff was ready for greener pastures. The syndicate replaced it with Oh Diana* by Don Flowers, another pretty girl strip with a similar but softer tone. Flowers produced a very fine strip, but I have to give Gloria the nod for having a little more chutzpah to it.
* Originally titled Diana Dane when it debuted.
Labels: Obscurities
Monday, May 09, 2022
Toppers: Buzzy
Buzzy was the topper to Ferd Johnson's Texas Slim, a strip that I think basically existed as a reward to Ferd for his service assisting on Moon Mullins. I am not a fan of Texas Slim, in which EVRBUDDY YACKS LAK DIS TIL MAH CONSARNED HAID IS PERT' NEAR SPLODIN'. It is also a strip in which fistfights and other physical humour are often supposed to function as the point, because there certainly isn't much else there to laugh at very often.
Anyhow, if Texas Slim doesn't rate a place in my own personal hall of fame, the topper Buzzy is just so utterly lackluster that I can't even manage to form an opinion. It stars a rough and tumble sort of kid, and the gags are often about his interactions with his mom. In the sample above, emblematic of the series, you can see the level of sparkling wit that was generally on display. At least, thank goodness, they don't talk in the annoying patois of the main strip.
Buzzy debuted on October 10 1943* when Texas Slim was demoted from a half-pager to a third in the broadsheet format. Buzzy was also added to the tab and half-tab formats. Since very few papers took the strip outside of the Chicago Tribune family of papers, and Buzzy was usually thrown out by them, the strip can be hard to track. The latest I can find the topper running is September 6 1953**, but it could have and probably did run longer than that. Anyone know of later appearances?
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* Source: Chicago Tribune
** Source: New York Daily News
Labels: Topper Features
Sunday, May 08, 2022
Wish You Were Here, from Charles Dana Gibson
Here's a Gibson card issued by Henderson & Sons of England. This one is #91 from their Pictorial Comedy series.
I confess I am not familiar with these caps as being somehow emblematic of Yankees. But I can say for sure that Googling "historical Yankee caps" will definitely not get anyone closer to answers in this regard.
Labels: Wish You Were Here
I'm guessing that it's a reference to the Suffragettes.
: 5/08/2022 9:34 AM Saturday, May 07, 2022
Herriman Saturday: April 2 1910
April 2 1910 -- Herriman is called upon to make almost daily strips about the upcoming Fight of the Century. Naturally (I suppose) this devolves mostly into jibes against Johnson, in the spirit of giving mostly white newspaper readers what they want.
This strip, in which Johnson sets out to outdo Jeffries on various counts, includes a doubled speeding ticket in the final panel. There is a story often told of the champ that he was once pulled over for speeding and that the fine, to be paid directly to the officer, was $50. The champ supposedly hands him a $100 bill, and the cop says he can't make change for the big bill. Johnson tells him not to worry, keep the extra $50 as he has every intention of driving just as fast on his return trip later.
I don't know if this story was already in circulation by April 1910, but I have to guess it was; otherwise Herriman is exhibiting quite an amazing ability to foretell the future.
Labels: Herriman's LA Examiner Cartoons
Friday, May 06, 2022
Obscurity of the Day: The Quality Kid
John R. Bray is remembered today as a pioneer in the field of animation, but he also had an earlier career in newspaper comics. Most of his work was for the McClure Syndicate, but he was not so greatly in demand that he wouldn't jump on other offers of work.
That would be the case with The Quality Kid, a feature he created for the short-lived Publishers Press Syndicate. We've discussed that syndicate before in connection with Harrison Cady's Jolly Jumpers. Bray came late to the party, when Publishers Press was close to gasping its last. The Quality Kid debuted on June 1 1913, and it went down the tubes with the comics section itself on September 7 1913*.
The Quality Kid concerns itself with a rich kid and two ragamuffin street urchins. Most comics that put together rich and poor kids have the poor ones outsmarting or just plain bullying the 'quality' kid, but in Bray's strip the kids are partners-in-crime, with all the kids out to pull pranks, sometimes on others, sometimes on each other. A running gag is that the butler, James, is not the intended butt of these goings-on, but often gets caught up in the tide much to his detriment.
The series was attractive but quite repetitive, but it probably mattered very little to Bray. He was busy forming his new animation studio at essentially the same time as The Quality Kid was hitting the few remaining client papers of Publishers Press. Bray's first cartoon short, The Artist's Dream, was released in July 1913.
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* Sources: Running dates from Atlanta Constitution and St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
E&P Mystery Strips: Letter 'S'
I stalled out on this series with letter 'R' in 2013, but here are the 'S'es and all it took was slightly less than a decade!
Okay, here's how this works, for those who haven't been keeping up with the whirlwind pace. The Editor & Publisher Syndicate Yearbooks, published from 1924 until 2010, listed theoretically all the available syndicated features, including comic strips and panels. Those listings often included features that I've never been able to locate. Some of them, no doubt, never appeared anywhere and were just wishful thinking. But if you look at previous letters, and the later exclamations of discovery from myself and others, some of these features can and do let themselves be found by the most intrepid researchers.
Therefore your task, if you wish to accept it, is to go forth on a hard target search of every research library, online digital newspaper archive and the material in your own collection, and report back to Stripper's Guide Central with your discoveries.
|
Title |
Creator(s) |
Syndicate |
Advertised Format/Frequency |
Years Advertised |
Notes/Status (blank means still a mystery) |
|
Saddle Sore |
Frank Barnett |
American International |
Daily panel |
1989-91 |
|
|
Saddle Sores |
George Alblitz |
Trans World News |
Daily strip |
1976-78 |
|
|
Saint Paul & Duncan |
David Watkins, Wayne Dunifon |
Suzerain |
Daily panel |
1992-95 |
|
|
Saltwood |
D. Leahy, Piper |
Columbia Features |
Daily |
1988-89 |
|
|
Sam & Max, Freelance Police |
Steve Purcell |
At Large Features |
Weekly strip |
2001-02 |
No mention of a newspaper series on the charcaters’ Wikipedia page. |
|
Sam Mantics |
Carey Orr Cook |
Sam Mantics Enterprises |
Twice weekly strip |
1990-93 |
|
|
Sam Scout |
W.Clay, Len Glasgow, Lane, Mead, Warkentin |
World News Syndicate |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1972-77 |
|
|
Sampson |
Ken and Lorretta Bank |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily panel |
1984 |
|
|
San Victorino |
Gamez |
Colombian Comics |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1990-96 |
|
|
Sandcastles |
Greg Curfman |
Sandcastles Syndicate |
Weekly strip |
1976 |
|
|
Sandlot Sammy |
Harry E. Godwin |
Quaker Features |
Daily strip |
1925 |
|
|
Sandy’s World |
Roy Doty |
Paradigm-TSA |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1999 |
|
|
Santigwar |
R. Lee |
American International |
Daily strip |
1987-89 |
|
|
Sargent MacDoogle |
Rick Wilson |
Wilson Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1975-76 |
|
|
Sassafrass Tea |
Bob Howard |
Bob Howard Enterprises |
Weekly panel |
1973 |
|
|
Sassy Makes Three |
Arlene Rowles, Ann Mace |
Cascade Features |
Weekly |
1990 |
|
|
Saturn Against The Earth |
Uncredited |
Press Alliance |
Weekly strip |
1940 |
|
|
School Daze |
John Owens |
American International |
Daily panel |
1993-94 |
|
|
Scientific Sam |
Maurice Beam |
Universal Press |
Daily strip |
1935 |
|
|
Scoop Roundtree |
Nathan Diggs, J. Anderson |
Amadou Features |
Weekly strip |
1973 |
|
|
Scorer |
John Gillatt, Barrie Tomlinson |
North America Syndicate |
Daily strip |
1992-98 |
Well-known British strip, but did it appear in US newspapers? |
|
Scotty the Wonder Dog |
E.I. Reed |
Miller Features |
Daily strip |
1939-40 |
|
|
Scrappy |
Charles Mintz |
Eisner-Iger Associates |
Daily/weekly strip |
1937 |
Is this the same as the known “Scrappy Sayings” panels? |
|
Scraps |
Michael Wakinyan |
United Cartoonist Syndicate |
Daily |
1987-88 |
|
|
Screams |
Guy Gilchrist, Ralph Hagen |
DBR Media |
Weekly panel |
2002-2000s |
|
|
Scroll of Fame |
A.S. Curtis |
Self-syndicated |
Sunday strip |
1951-61 |
|
|
Scruffles |
Uncredited |
TV Compulog |
Weekly strip |
1976 |
|
|
The Sea Hawk |
Uncredited |
Eric Jon Inc. |
Weekly strip |
1955-61 |
|
|
Sea Rations |
James Estes |
Star-Telegram Syndicate |
Daily strip |
1974 |
|
|
Seaweed |
Johnny Sajem |
Trans World News/Allied Press |
Daily strip |
1977-81 |
|
|
Sebastian |
Alex Stefanson |
Dickson-Bennett/Weekly Features |
Daily panel |
1984-85 |
|
|
See For Yourself |
Uncredited |
Associated Press |
Weekly |
1946 |
|
|
Seems Funny But It’s True |
Ralph S. Matz |
Matz Features/Unique Features |
Daily strip |
1936-39 |
|
|
Seven Errors |
F. Hays |
BP Singer |
Weekly |
1976-78 |
|
|
Shakespeare Plays |
Luzny |
Canada Wide Features |
Daily strip |
1947-48 |
Any distribution in US? |
|
Shamrocks |
Kessler, McCarty |
Kay Features |
Daily panel |
1932-33 |
|
|
Shanghai Lil |
Sarge O’Neill |
Southern Cartoon Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1970-78 |
|
|
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle |
W. Morgan Thomas |
Eisner-Iger Associates |
Weekly strip |
1938-39 |
|
|
Sheriff of Pina Coda |
Mike Moen |
Suzerain |
Daily strip |
1986 |
|
|
Sherlock Home |
Bob Goodbread |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily panel |
1984 |
|
|
Sheroderfield |
Jeff Koterba |
Dickson-Bennett |
Weekly strip |
1980-81 |
|
|
Sherwood |
Robert Nunn |
Weekly Features/American Way Features |
Daily strip |
1986-88 |
|
|
Sherwood Forest |
Mike Bannon, Dave Gregory |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly strip |
1981-84 |
|
|
Short Cake |
Pedro Moreno |
United Cartoonist Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1982 |
|
|
Short Stuff |
Jack Flynn |
Trans World/Dickson-Bennett |
Daily strip |
1978-84 |
|
|
Short Short Stories |
Charles Hendrick Jr. |
Continental Features |
Weekly panel |
1998-2000s |
|
|
Showcase for New Cartoonists |
John Shepherd |
Self-syndicated |
Weekly strip |
1993 |
|
|
Side Laughs |
William Ferguson |
NEA |
Weekly strip |
1937 |
|
|
Side Show |
Oz Black, E.H. Peterson |
Inter-American Newspaper/Thompson Service |
Daily panel |
1934-36 |
|
|
Sideline |
Rick Goldsberry |
American International |
Daily panel |
1990-91 |
|
|
Sign-o-Rama |
M.W. Martin |
Self-syndicated |
Daily panel |
1970-79 |
|
|
Silent Sam |
Kern Pederson |
American International |
Daily strip |
1988-98 |
|
|
Silky ‘n Vixen |
Russ De Marks |
Russell Enterprises |
Daily strip |
1969-71 |
|
|
Silly Dillies |
Bob Lagers |
Ledger Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1967-70 |
|
|
Simon Cool |
Jerry Breen |
Allied Press |
Daily strip |
1980 |
|
|
Simple Interest |
Anthony Schultz |
J Features |
Weekly panel |
1998-2000s |
|
|
Simpleman |
Wim Van Wieringen |
Douglas Whiting Limited |
Unstated |
1959 |
Dutch – appeared in US? |
|
Single Again |
Michael Byrne |
Allied Press |
Daily strip |
1980-81 |
|
|
Single Again |
Evan Diamond |
Miller Features |
Daily strip |
2000 |
|
|
Sister Anne |
Peter John Fugere |
Trans World |
Daily/weekly panel |
1976-78 |
|
|
Six-Gun Days |
Reg Manning |
McClure |
Daily/weekly |
1931 |
|
|
Sketch Book |
Gaylord,Zibellie |
United Feature |
Daily panel |
1946 |
|
|
Sketches |
Lambert Guenther |
T-Bean Syndicate |
? |
1926 |
|
|
Sketches |
George Spohn |
Matz Features |
Daily strip |
1934 |
|
|
Sketches From Life |
Joseph Buresch |
Unique Features |
Weekly strip |
1938 |
|
|
Sketches From The War Front/Sketches From Life |
Ralph Matz |
Matz Features |
Weekly strip |
1939,1941 |
|
|
Skip Logan |
Al Fagaly |
Thompson Service |
Daily strip |
1937-41 |
|
|
Skipper Windward |
P.J. Kuhn |
Douglas Whiting Ltd |
Daily strip |
1961-64 |
|
|
The Skipper |
Ron W. Stanfield |
Trans World |
Daily panel |
1977-79 |
|
|
Skippy |
Percy Crosby |
Winford Co. |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1971-72 |
Re-run syndication. |
|
Sky Capers |
Joel Shalit |
Dickson-Bennett |
Weekly panel |
1980-81 |
|
|
Sky Pirates |
Uncredited |
Allied Press |
Weekly strip |
1940 |
|
|
Skyrocket Steele |
William Everett |
Watkins Syndicate |
Weekly strip |
1939 |
|
|
Slangy Seth |
Maurice Beam |
Universal Press |
Daily/weekly panel |
1935 |
|
|
Slapsic |
Tom Hickey |
McNaught |
Daily panel |
1958 |
|
|
Slewfoot |
Nellis Johnson |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly strip |
1981-82 |
|
|
Small Potatoes |
John Barclay |
American International |
Daily strip |
1989 |
|
|
Small Shots |
Bill Johnson |
Richmond Syndicate |
Daily/Sunday panel |
1979 |
|
|
Small Talk |
Allan H. Kelly Jr. |
Self-syndicated |
Daily panel |
1983-2000s |
The copyrighted logo was dregistered as abandoned as of 1985. |
|
Small World |
Don Roberts |
United Press International |
Daily strip |
1984 |
|
|
Smile Awhile |
Dave Allen |
Worldwide Media |
Weekly panel |
2000-03 |
|
|
Smile A While |
Joe Buresch |
Newspaper Art Features |
Daily panel/Sunday strip |
1939 |
|
|
Smiles |
Frank Chapman |
International Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1924-39 |
|
|
Smiling Out Loud |
Sarge O’Neill |
Southern Cartoon Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1970-76 |
|
|
Smitty |
Don Gibbons |
Weekly Features |
Daily strip |
1986-87 |
|
|
Snapper Smith |
Uncredited |
Beacon Newspaper Svc |
Daily strip |
1940 |
|
|
Snappy Grampy |
Lyle Sterrett |
Trans World |
Daily panel |
1976-78 |
|
|
Snojoe |
George Donison |
Canada Wide Features |
Daily strip |
1970-71 |
Appeared in US? |
|
Snubby |
Reg Manning |
Bell Syndicate |
Daily strip |
1946 |
|
|
The Soaps |
Joan Altabe |
Dickson Features |
Weekly strip |
1980 |
|
|
Socko the Sea Dog |
“Teddy” (Jack Kirby) |
Keystone Press/Lincoln Features |
Daily strip |
1938-40 |
|
|
The Solar Legion |
Uncredited |
Beacon Newspaper Svs |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1940 |
|
|
Soldier Comic |
Max Milians |
Minority Features |
Weekly strip |
1942 |
|
|
Solve This Crime |
Philip Nowlan |
National Newspaper Svc |
Daily panel |
1931 |
|
|
Some Things Never Change |
Stephen Templeton |
American International |
Sunday panel |
1995 |
|
|
Something New For Tots To Do |
Frank Hopkins |
Audio Service |
Daily panel |
1926 |
|
|
Son & Co. |
John Roman |
King Features |
Daily/Sunday strip |
2000 |
Found by Henkster in Detroit Free Press on a trial basis on a few dates; Salt Lake Tribune ran it for a few months |
|
Sophisticated Lady |
Dorothy Mylria |
National Newspaper Svc |
Daily panel |
1957-59 |
|
|
Sorry About That |
Joe Capelini |
Community Features |
Daily/weekly panel |
1981 |
|
|
Sourdough |
Robert Tremblay |
United Cartoonist Syndicate |
Daily |
1986-88 |
|
|
South Sea Girl |
Thorne Stevenson (and John Forte) |
Phoenix Features |
Daily strip |
1974 |
Have seem much original art from the early 50s but never anything in newspapers. |
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Space Case |
Hoey Morris |
Callie-Pearl International |
Daily strip |
1983-84 |
|
|
The Space Frontier |
James V. Johnson |
Sun News Features |
Daily strip |
1960-63 |
|
|
Space Shots |
Emil V. Abrahamian |
Trans World |
Daily panel |
1978 |
|
|
Space-Nuts |
Pedro Moreno |
United Cartoonist Syndicate |
Daly strip |
1982-84 |
|
|
Spaced Out |
Keith M. Manzella |
Newspaper Features |
Daily strip |
1988-94 |
|
|
The Spacers |
Emil V. Abrahamian |
Trans World |
Daily/weekly strip |
1978-98 |
|
|
The Spacians |
Larz Borne |
Ledger Syndicate |
Daily strip |
1965 |
|
|
Sparky |
Bob Larsen |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily strip |
1984-85 |
|
|
Special Ed |
Pedro Moreno |
Comic Art Therapy |
Daily |
1993-94 |
|
|
The Specialists |
Bill Barry |
Adventure Features |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1994-95 |
|
|
Speed Centaur |
Malcolm Kildale |
Watkins Syndicate |
Weekly strip |
1939 |
|
|
Spencer Steel |
Dennis Colebrook |
Eisner-Iger Associates |
Weekly strip |
1937-39 |
|
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Sport Day |
Bill Morgan |
Columbia Features |
Daily panel |
1981-84 |
|
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Sport Snickers |
Lenny Hollreiser |
Hayden-Kennedy Syndicate |
Daily strip |
1950 |
|
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Sport-Spots |
Brook Slover |
R-GAB Features |
Daily/weekly panel |
1980 |
|
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The Sporting Thing
|
Joe E. Buresch |
Self-syndicated |
Weekly panel |
1959 |
|
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Sportoons |
Cliff Johnson, Bill Mittlebeeler, Jim Richardson |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly panel |
1980-84 |
|
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Sports Cars Speed |
Judd Burrow |
B&B |
Weekly panel |
1960-63 |
|
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Sports Chuckles |
Al Leiderman |
American International |
Daily panel |
1992 |
|
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The Sports File |
Emil V. Abrahamian |
Trans World |
Daily panel |
1978-97 |
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Sports Woman |
Sandy Dean |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly panel |
1984-85 |
|
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Sportsfun |
Merve Magus |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly strip |
1982-84 |
|
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Sportsville |
Thomas E. Moran |
Trans World |
Daily/weekly panel |
1976-78 |
|
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Spot |
Donald Vanozzi, Joe Zeis |
Sparks Syndicate |
Weekly |
1991 |
|
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Spy Hunters |
Lochlan Field |
Watkins Syndicate |
Weekly strip |
1939 |
|
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Squeegee |
Ken Muse |
Community Features/Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly panel |
1980-95 |
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Squeeky Break |
Ray Rubbin |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily panel |
1983-84 |
|
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Squiggles |
Grace Lee Richardson |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily strip |
1980-81 |
|
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St. Peter’s Gate |
Pedro Moreno |
United Cartoonist Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1980-84 |
|
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Stacy |
Randy Bisson |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly strip |
1981-98 |
|
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Stained Glass |
Jonny Hawkins |
Davy Associates |
Weekly panel |
1998-2000s |
|
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Standouts |
Mal Eno |
Atlas Features |
Weekly panel |
1949-50 |
|
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Stanislaus |
Dan Nevins |
Chicago Tribune-NY News |
Weekly strip |
1980 |
|
|
Stanley & Decker |
Roger Kliesh |
Wade’s Cartoon Svc |
Weekly strip |
1991 |
|
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Star Points |
Carl Kuhn |
Thompson Service |
Daily/weekly panel |
1935 |
|
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Star Warriors |
F. Treadgold |
BP Singer Features |
Weekly strip |
1978 |
|
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Star Weevils |
J. Michael Leonard |
Rip-Off Press |
Weekly strip |
1978 |
|
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Startling Facts |
Ferd Himme |
Lowery Cartoons |
Weekly panel |
1932 |
|
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The State of Georgia |
R. David Boyd |
Mark Morgan Inc |
Weekly |
1993-2000s |
|
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Static |
B.W. Depew |
Register & Tribune Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1928 |
|
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Station I-M-D-Z |
Jack Jay |
Paramount Syndicate |
Daily strip |
1937 |
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Status Quo |
Charlie Wible |
Richard Lynn Enterprises |
Daily panel |
1978-79 |
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Stella Starlet |
Martin, Stone |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily panel |
1984 |
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Still Waiting |
Bryan Ubaghs |
At Large Features |
Daily strip |
2001-02 |
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Stitch In Time |
James Janeway |
American International |
Daily strip |
1992 |
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Stories of Real People |
Vernon Rieck |
Velerie Productions |
? |
1961 |
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Stories of the Opera |
Bernard Baily |
Bell Syndicate |
Daily |
1949 |
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Strange Accidents |
Bunny Hogarth |
Leeds Features |
Daily panel |
1933 |
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Strange Encounters of the Unexplained and Bizarre |
Fred Hull, Bill Barry |
Adventure Features |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1981-83 |
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Strangely Enough |
John Duncan |
JAD’s Service |
Weekly panel |
1938 |
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Stranger Than Fiction |
Ralph Matz |
Matz Features |
Daily strip |
1939 |
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The Strangest Thing |
Everett Erwin |
Western Newspaper Union |
Weekly panel |
1946 |
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Strike Out |
Martin Grodt |
Editors Syndicate |
Daily panel |
1949-50 |
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Stromboli |
Mario Risso |
Trans World |
Daily/weekly panel |
1976 |
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Strongman |
Uncredited |
Beacon Newspaper Syndicate |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1940 |
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Stump The Ump |
Dywelska, Kent |
Liberty Features |
Weekly strip |
1991-94 |
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Stumpy Stumbler |
Emil V. Abrahamian |
Self-syndicated |
Daily/weekly strip |
1983-2002 |
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Sub Rosa |
Mimi |
Bell Syndicate |
Daily strip |
1925 |
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Subito |
Bozz |
Press Alliance |
Daily/Occasional (!) |
1950-52 |
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Suburbia |
Don Raden |
Suburban Features |
Weekly panel |
1976-85 |
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Sugar |
Jack Fitch |
A.S. Curtis Features |
Daily strip |
1949-61 |
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Suggestion Box |
Steve Moore |
Star Group |
Weekly |
1984-85 |
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Sunday Laughs/Sunday Laugh Male Cartoons |
Paul Swede |
BP Singer |
Weekly strip |
1973-93 |
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Sunday at the Movies with Louie Loophole |
Joe Gurrera |
Comic Art Therapy |
Sunday |
1994-95 |
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Sunny Side Up |
Frank Drake |
United Cartoonist Syndicate |
Daily |
1985 |
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Sunny Sue |
Jack Fitch, Edna Markham |
A.S. Curtis |
Daily strip |
1950-61 |
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Sunset Park |
Ralph Aspinwall |
Dickson-Bennett |
Daily/weekly strip |
1981-82 |
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Super Kat |
William L. Harper |
Palestine Herald Press |
Daily/weekly strip |
1975-78 |
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Super Shrink |
Edward Stark |
Trans World |
Daily panel |
1977-79 |
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Super And Pals |
Blackburn, Thomas |
Trans World |
Daily panel |
1977-78 |
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Suzerain’s Wildlife |
Joe Fahey |
Suzerain |
Daily |
1986 |
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The Swingers |
Barbara Jones |
Allied Feature |
Daily panel |
1969 |
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Swoosh Morgan |
Rolland Lynch |
N.E.W.S. |
Daily/Sunday strip |
1949 |
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Sycamore Center |
Graham Hunter |
Oklahoman & Times |
Weekly strip |
1965-66 |
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Labels: Mystery Strips
I've seen (but unfortunately don't have) a trade display ad urging editors to buy these two titles as well as a third, "Zorro of the Metropolis." "Zorro" doesn't seem to have appeared anywhere. The McKay and Hawley books only lasted a couple of issues each, taking the Italian strips down with them. I speculate that the buildup to World War II put an end to this international venture.
It's interesting that "Saturn" and other Mondadori comic projects were conceived and plotted by Cesare Zavattini, who after the war found fame as a screenwriter of neorealist classics such as "Bicycle Thieves" and "Umberto D."
"The Spacians" by animation great Larz Bourne would've been interesting, but I was told by people involved in the project that though the "ledger Syndicate" (or, "The NEW Ledger Syndicate" announced several titles, including a revival of the original Ledger's star feature, Hairbreadth Harry, they only managed to get one strip launched, "Batman". This was in 1966, where you'd think the hottest property on TV would be a smash, but the new Ledger was even worse run than it's inspiration, and flopped.
"Scorer" was handled by us at KFS/NAS for several years, along with the London Mirror's other offerings like "The Perishers" and "Millie", but we really couldn't get US papers to touch anything but Andy Capp. So As far as I know, no US Scorer sales.
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