Here are the mystery strip B listings. Read yesterday's post to see what this whole mess is about.
I'm going to stop with B for a few days to see what sort of response comes in. Putting together a letter's worth of listings takes anywhere from 2 - 6 hours, so it's a major time investment. I'd like to see if the investment has any dividends...
Babs & Aldo - Buddy Valentine - King Features - daily/Sunday strip - 2003 (found! ran in Deseret Morning News - thanks to Charles Brubaker)
Baby Bee - Garcia - RDR Syndicate - daily panel - 1983
Baby Lynn - Tony Marchese - Trans-World - weekly panel - 1978
Bac Talk - Bob Howard - self-syndicated - weekly strip - 1973
Bachelor Bill - Bill O’Malley - Independent Features - daily panel - 1965
Bachelor Party - Adam Miller - Creators Syndicate - daily panel - 2002-03 (found! by Charles Brubaker in Salt Lake Tribune -- albeit running only selected dailies on Sundays)
Bachelors - George Castillo - United Cartoonists - daily strip - 1988
Back Home - Homer Box - Editors Copy Syndicate - weekly strip - 1986-present
Backfire! - George Leeds and Henry Riddick - Family Features - daily panel - 1948-49
Bad Example - Carlton Winford - self-syndicated - daily panel - 1971
Bad Libs - Ronald Boerem - Danny Ball Productions - weekly strip - 1978-79
The Baffles - Mahoney - National Weekly Newspaper Service - weekly panel - 1956-62 (found! in Soda Springs (ID) Sun)
The Bag Line - H.F.Voorhees - Dille - weekly panel - 1925
Ballads Of Classified Clara - Clarence W. Payne - CP Syndicate - daily panel - 1936
Balloonatics - Ernest Hix - Bell Syndicate - daily panel - 1948
Balloonatiks - Mark Gandy and Fred Goodman - Animagic - daily strip - 1996-97
Baloney - Martin Duffy - Trans-World - daily panel - 1976-78
Bannister Babies - Constance Bannister - Columbia Features - thrice weekly panel - 1972
Barbs & Brickbats - Allen and Owen Richardson - Dickson Features - weekly panel - 1979
Bargain Daze - Harley Schwadron - Davy Associates - weekly panel - 1990-present
Barkis And Family - Crockett Johnson - George Matthew Adams - daily panel - 1955 (FOUND! in Oakland Tribune)
Barklay - Laing - Interpress - daily strip - 1973
Barnacle - Alexander Monroe - Singer - weekly strip - 1978
Barnacle And His Friends - Alex Moore - Oceanic Press Service - weekly panel - 1983-95
Barnstormers - Frank Tabor - Trans-World - daily panel - 1976-81
The Barnyard Gate - Sarge O’Neill - Southern - daily strip - 1970-78
Baron Nobux - Jack Thomas - Queen Features - daily strip - 1939
Barring None - Burck - Chicago Times - daily panel - 1941
Barry Finn - Tarpe Mills - Watkins Syndicate (Brooklyn Eagle) - weekly strip - 1939
Basic Nature - Dick Lancaster - Continental - weekly panel - 1995
Batch - Marty Bartels and Bill Lane - Chicago Sun-Times - daily strip - 1994-95
Baz And Company - Mike Higgs - News America - daily panel - 1993
Be A Detective - Bruce Patterson - Matz Features - daily strip - 1937
Be A Sport - Jim Janeway - American International - daily strip - 1992-94
Beaker - Leonard Bruce - Leoleen Durck Creations - daily strip - 1991-92
Beat This - Tip Brady - McClure Syndicate - daily panel - 1958
Beau Geste - P.C. Wren - Register & Tribune Syndicate - daily strip - 1933-34 (never mind -- turns out this is an alternate title for Flying To Fame)
Beau Peep - Andrew Christine and Roger Kettle - The Syndicate - daily strip - 1987-90
Beauregard - Jack Davis - McClure Syndicate - daily strip - 1961 (Ger Apeldoom says the strip didn't sell, ran in a humor magazine instead)
Beautiful! - Charles Bowen and Barbara Jones - Allied Features - daily panel - 1977-86 (found! by Jeffrey Lindenblatt in Indianapolis News)
Beautyettes - Aldine Swank - Associated Features - daily panel - 1935 (note: name is a pseudonym of Faith Burrows)
Becky - Frank Tabor - Anderson Features - weekly strip - 1970
Becky’s Senior - Evans Krehbiel - Weekly Features - daily strip - 1986-89
Bee Smart - John Prinkey - Other Dimensions - daily strip - 1971-79
The Beehive - editors of Childlife - Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate - Sunday strip - 1957-61
Beep-Beep - Robert Leduc - Service Offset de Presse - daily and Sunday panel - 1968-71
Begger - Ken Muse - Dickson-Bennett - weekly strip - 1982
Belly Laughs - Sarge O'Neill - Southern Cartoon Syndicate - daily strip - 1970-73
Benny Kukoe - T.J. Garlan - Thompson Service - daily - 1932
Berenstain Bears - Stan & Jan Berenstain - King Features - daily panel - 1982
Berserkers of the 21st Century - Bob Tuna - Lew Little Enterprises - daily and Sunday strip - 1998 (creator tells me that the strip has so far appeared online only)
Bert 'n' Gert - Jack Levin - General Features - daily strip - 1954 (found! turns out to be continuation of "Hands 'n' Faces")
Best Years - Ed Heckman - American International Syndicate - daily strip - 1992-94
Best of Church Humor - Jack Hamm - Religious Drawings Inc - Sunday - 1960 (not the same as Church Humor from the 1970s)
Best Of Press - L. Hughes - Editors Copy Syndicate - weekly panel - 1976
Bettey And Her Pals - William Miller - Unique Features - daily panel - 1945
Betty Blurbs - J.C. Beesley - King Features - daily panel - 1929-30 (FOUND! in Lethbridge Herald)
Betty Botch and Bob Botch (listed separately) - Mel Millar - Pat Anderson Features - weekly panel - 1972-75
Betty Brighteyes - Bill Seidcheck - General Features - weekly strip - 1937-42 [found! by Art Lortie in Hastings News]
Betty Lee - Ralph Matz - Matz Features - daily strip - 1935-38
Between Us Girls - Ashton Wing - Allied Feature - daily panel - 1964-69
Bi-Focals - Ruth Marcus - McNaught Syndicate - daily and Sunday panel - 1977 (found! in Clearfield Progress)
Bible Stories in Color - La Sorgente - Spadea Syndicate - weekly strip - 1973-75
Bible Story - Glen Cassel - American International - daily strip - 1990-94
Bible Today - M. Roget - Mark Morgan Inc - weekly panel - 1970-72
Bibs - Mickey Jai and Martin Kormic - Dickson Bennett - daily panel - 1982
Big Boss & Company - Richard Davies - Community Features - weekly panel - 1980
Big Boy - Ferd Himme - Lowery Cartoon Corp - weekly panel - 1932
Big Brother - Clem Scalzetti - Dickson-Bennett - weekly strip - 1980-82
Big Feet - Pedro Moreno - United Cartoonist Syndicate - daily panel - 1979-85
Big Flat City - Richard Kolkman - self-syndicated - weekly strip - 1994-97 (FOUND! Creator reports it ran in college papers 1988-96)
Big Foot - Robert Beasley - Danny Ball Productions - daily strip - 1979
Big Little Things - Walter Galli and Dick Thomas - Watkins Syndicate - weekly strip - 1936
Big Moments - Ving Fuller - self-syndicated - daily panel - 1950
Big Town Follies - Mike Gray and Bob Moore - Nationwide Features - weekly panel - 1949-50 [Charles Thompson supplies proof that Nationwide was a producer of advertising strips; not eligible for SG listing]
Big World Of Little Things - Alfred O. Shedd - Science Service - weekly panel - 1927
Bigg's Business - Bob Zahn - Centurion Press and others - daily panel - 1972-79 and 1990-present (found in Syracuse Post-Standard, 1972-76 only; in 1979 Zahn said he was no longer producing the feature)
Bill And Hazel - Harlan Wade - Transworld News Service - daily panel - 1978
Bill Bunker - Henry Formhals - United Feature - unknown - 1933
Billy And His Dog/Billy The Kid - Lloyd James Williams - self-syndicated - daily strip - 1939-40
Billy The Beaver - James Rodriguez - Comic Art Therapy - daily - 1993-95
Bing And His Buddies - Ed Brennon - General Features - weekly strip - 1937-42 [found! by Art Lortie in Hastings News]
Bizness Peepul - W.O. Evans Jr - Thompson Service - thrice weekly panel - 1933-34
Bizz And Biff - F.H. Cumberworth - Watkins Syndicate - daily strip - 1940
Black Bart - Dick Locher - Winford Co. - daily - 1971
Black Sheep - W.A. Dillard - Columbia Inc - daily strip - 1935
Black And White - Weihrauch - Select Features - daily panel - 1948
Blaze Braden - Paul Morgan - Crown Features - Sunday strip - 1960
Blisters - Jeb Ladouceur and Neel Roth - Transworld News Service - daily strip - 1978
Blockheads - John Gile - Register & Tribune Syndicate - daily panel - 1979
Bloop - Joseph Morton - United Cartoonist Syndicate - daily - 1988
Bob Bannon - Prentice Phillips and Ray Tucker - Ray Gross Features - daily panel - 1938
Bob Sledd - Stuart Welsh - McClure Syndicate - daily strip - 1928
Bobby Babysitter - Ron Fritz - American International - daily strip - 1992-94
Bodities - Dr. Kruidenier - Esquire Features - daily panel - 1939
Boids - Peter Garvey - Transworld News Service - daily panel - 1976
Boldo Inc - Steve Moore - Star Group - weekly panel - 1984-85
Bonzer U - Kearney Egerton - LA Times Syndicate - daily strip - 1968
Boomers - Kent Whitaker - Kentoons - thrice weekly panel - 1994-97
The Boomers - William Feld - Stuyvesant Syndicate - weekly strip - 1970
Boosterville - Leonard Bruce and Douglas Nelson - Leoleen-Durck Creations - daily strip - 1985-86
Born Lucky - Bruce Plante - Universal Press - weekly panel - 2001-present (found! verified by creator Bruce Plante)
Bossy The Rooster - R.S. Matz - Unique Features - daily strip - 1946
Botony Boy - David B. Wood - Transworld News Service - weekly strip - 1977-78
The Brain Trust - Jack Roman - Press-Craft Features - weekly panel - 1978
Brain Wave - Ed Wilkens - Transworld News Service - weekly panel - 1978
Brass Tacks - Nick Frising - Allied Features - daily panel - 1978-86
Breaker, Breaker - J.W. Lynch and Mike MacCormack - Copley News Service - daily strip - 1977
Brother Simon And Lucas - Pedro Moreno - Transworld News Service - daily strip - 1976-88, 93-94
Brothers-In-Law - Jacquin - Premier Syndicate - daily strip - 1926 just a messed up listing in E&P -- this is an already documented strip by Darrell McClure
Brothers-In-Law - Edward Bryant - self-syndicated - weekly - 1991-92
Buccaneers - Al Ciederman - American International Syndicate - daily strip - 1989
Bucksaw - Randy Muir - American International Syndicate - daily strip - 1987
Bud 'n' Bub - Ed Kressy - Publishers Autocaster - weekly strip - 1931 DD Degg found this strip running in Cass City (MI) Chronicle - thanks DD!
Bud Broker - KmC - Feature Associates - daily - 1984
Buffo - Howard Rands - Al Smith Service - weekly strip - 1989-91
Buford - John Marshall - Syndicated Newspaper Services - daily strip - 1982
Buford's North Forty - Chris Carr - self-syndicated - daily strip - 1986
Bug - Rand Renfore - United Cartoonist Syndicate - daily - 1985-87
Bug Movies - Stookie Allen - EAS - weekly strip - 1930-34
Bugwine - Arthur Akers and Dudely Williams - Allied Features - daily strip - 1935
Builders Of America - George (Jimmie) Smith - Transatlantic News Features - ? - 1942
The Bumbles - Al Smith - Al Smith Service - weekly strip - 1982-83 [found! in Burleson Star by Charles Brubaker. Thanks Charles!]
The Bumpalumpkins - Robert J. Alberts - United Cartoonist Syndicate - daily - 1987-88
Bumper T. Bumper - Robert Laughlin - Transworld News Service - daily - 1979
Bumpy - C.D. Russell - Famous Features - daily strip - 1925
Bus - Woody Gelman - Solomon & Gelman - daily strip - 1947
Bush League - John Bianchi and Ken Shaw - LA Times Syndicate - daily and Sunday strip - 1975
Bush League Barry - Victor Pazimino - EAS - weekly strip - 1930-34
Business Card - Anne and Gene Bass - Cartoonist & Writers Syndicate - thrice weekly - 1992
Business As Usual - Harley Schwadron - Allied Press International - daily panel - 1980-81
Buster - Aaron Bacall - Transworld News Service - daily strip - 1976-77
Buster And Lester - Virgil Maldonado Jr - United Cartoonist Syndicate - daily - 1986-87
Butter And Eggs - Norcross - Wheeler-Nicholson - daily panel - 1926
Butterball - Bill Danch - Select Features - daily panel - 1957-62
Button's Bunch - Ford Button - Dickson-Bennett - daily and Sunday strip - 1980-86
Button-Up - Ford Button - R-GAB Features - daily panel - 1980
Button-A-Day - Ed Moore - United Feature - daily panel - 1972-73
Buzz And Biff - F.H. Cumberworth - Watkins Syndicate - daily strip - 1939
Buzzy - Brian White - Watkins Syndicate - daily strip - 1935-36
By George - George Callahan - Dickson-Bennett - daily strip - 1982
By Murphy's Law - Robert Howell - Journal Syndicate - daily - 1982-86
Hi Steven -
ReplyDeleteBug Movies, if my recollector is working right, appeared in that comic section distributed by Eastern Color Printing. Problem with it is that no one has ever seen it packaged with a US newspaper (only a Canadian one), so its not yet eligible for Stripper's Guide inclusion. Since the company was based in the US it seems only reasonable that they managed to sell it to someone here, but no evidence of that so far. Eastern did package some reprint books of these strips, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they also sold them to comic books later on.
Best, Allan
Big Flat City - Richard Kolkman - self-syndicated - weekly strip - 1994-97
ReplyDeleteI can tell you this comic strip existed because I drew it from 1988 to 1996. It began in Sagamore Indiana University newspaper, and was syndicated to alternative and college papers from 1990 to 1996. Peak number of papers was 12 in 1992. Mini-Comics for sale at www.xulucomics.com
Thanks, Richard - excellent to get the straight dope right from the horse's mouth! Did it ever get syndicated into 'mainstream' (ie not college) papers?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Allan
Oh, and "Born Lucky" also existed. It ended last year.
ReplyDeleteSome strips http://www.ucomics.com/bornlucky/
Hi Charles -
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for your msgs and the provided links. What I need, though, is confirmation that these features ran in newspapers, not just on the web. That's the problem with a lot of these strips from the last ten years or so. They run on the websites (comics.com, uexpress, etc.) as sort of tryouts, and some (many?) never actually make the leap into actual newspapers. The samples of "Bachelor Party" that you link to, for instance, with their computer shading, have the air of something that was meant more to look good on the web than on newsprint.
If you can send me clipped samples of any of these strips, or scans definitely from newspapers (paper names please) I'd not only be thrilled to get them, but of course you'd be getting one of my famous goodie packages for your effort. Provide proof of all four and I guess you'll be getting the ultra-mega goodie package!
Best, Allan
Re: Beauregard - Jack Davis - McClure Syndicate - daily strip - 1961
ReplyDeleteThis was written about in the Comic Journal special Edition #4. Made for a syndicate but didn't sell and was finally published in Sick. I think the writer did the article for the CJ.
Hello, Allan---"THE BERENSTAIN BEARS" feature never came about.---Cole Johnson.
ReplyDeleteBhob Stewart, in his blog today, backs up Ger's assertion about Beauregard and supplies samples.
ReplyDeletehttp://potrzebie.blogspot.com/2008/02/jack-davis-beauregard.html
Re Bachelor Party, I did a spot check of the Salt Lake Tribune and could not find the strip there. If it did run it came and went fast.
ReplyDelete--Allan
In Google's news archives, I found a few appearances of a "Brothers-In-Law" strip syndicated by Premier, but it's says it's by Darrell McClure, not "Jacquin".
ReplyDeleteThese links should take you to the right page, but you may have to scroll around to found the strip.
06/02/1926
06/03/1926 [Google thinks it's 06/04]
06/04/1929
06/07/1929
06/08/1926 [Google thinks it's 06/09]
06/09/1929
Hi Anon --
ReplyDeleteI already had this strip documented (as Brother-In-Law rather than the plural) and didn't make the connection. I'm sure you've IDed the right one tho. E&P just REALLY screwed up on the creator name!
Thanks -- another one struck from the list!
Hello to all at Stripper's Guide I am very new to this and finally found a website that seems to now about vintage comic strips. However I was looking to find other comics from C.A. Voight I have the Betty strip from the Sunday August 3, 1919 Pittsburg Paper any ideas where I could find other comics from this same Comic? Sally
ReplyDeletesally.jordan61@yahoo.com
Is this true King Features tried to launch a Berenstain Bears comic strip based on Stan and Jan Berenstain's books in 1982?
ReplyDeleteAllan,
ReplyDeleteI found "Bachelor Party" running in Salt Lake Tribune, although they seemed to have run them as a batch of strips on Sundays in their "Salt Substitute" section. Here are pages
Here are a bunch of pages with the strip (it also ran a Signe Wilkinson strip called "Shrubbery"
https://imgur.com/a/3rnu2vG
Okay, got Bachelor Party and Shrubbery in the database now; Philadelphia Daily News ran the latter complete. Thanks Charles!
ReplyDeleteNo prob, Allan!
ReplyDeleteHere's another to cross off your list. I found "Buford's North Forty" in Sapulpa Daily Herald (Oklahoma). It began on April 4, 1986 (Friday) there; the paper ran a blurb on that date saying the strip will run every Friday and Sunday. The creator, Chris Carr, was a resident of Tulsa, OK.
However, the microfilm archive didn't seem to save the Sunday comics section, so while I found the strip running weekly on Fridays, I can't find any of the Sunday comics.
The latest I can find in the paper is May 6, 1988 (a Friday).
Here are the samples: https://imgur.com/a/QbofI7k
Thanks for that Charles. Looking closely at that run, I see that they ran the strip late (the first one is dated 3/20/86), and that at some point the strip went to daily frequency based on strip dating, though the Herald kept on running it only on Fridays. Thus, their end date is very late. The last strip there was dated 2/9/1987. I think the Sunday comment is a red herring: the paper ran so few dailies, I find it hard to believe that they had Sunday comics. A text search of the paper for "comics" finds no mention of a Sunday comics section.
ReplyDeleteThe Bumbles - Al Smith - Al Smith Service - weekly strip - 1982-83
ReplyDeleteI found it running in Burleson (TX) Star from April 19, 1982 to July 18, 1983
https://imgur.com/a/nhmfMG6
There's quite a few goodies in that Burleson paper (Al Smith Service and Copley Syndicate strips), but it seems to have disappeared from newspapers.com. I tried accessing it from a Texas library site, but their server dies after about three page views! Oh well, at least you found The Bumbles! --Allan
ReplyDeleteNo prob! I used this site to find Burleson Star archives. If you're still having trouble, I can try grabbing as much of their comics section as I can if you need info on Copley and Al Smith strips
ReplyDeletehttps://texashistory.unt.edu/
Hi Allan,
ReplyDeleteFound "Bigg's Business"! In:
The Belleville Times
Belleville, New Jersey · Thursday, October 24, 1974
The earliest found on Newspapers.com.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-belleville-times-biggs-business-ce/150014372/
Latest date from a quick search found, Thursday, January 22, 1976.
If the appearance in this paper is indicative, it ran weekly.