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November 4 1909 -- Poetry makes the headlines in 1909 when two poets spar over what has been deemed an ungentlemanly slap at a British society dame.

William Watson penned the poem "The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue", later admitting that the subject of his poison penmanship was Margot Asquith (wife of the Prime Minister) along with her daughter Violet:

She is not old, she is not young,
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue.
The haggard cheek, the hungering eye,
The poisoned words that wildly fly,

The famished face, the fevered hand,
Who slights the worthiest in the land,
Sneers at the just, condemns the brave,
And blackens goodness in its grave.

In truthful numbers be she sung,
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue;
Concerning whom, Fame hints at things
Told but in shrugs and whisperings:

Ambitious from her natal hour,
And scheming all her life for power;
With little left of seemly pride;
With venomed fangs she cannot hide;

Who half makes love to you to-day,
To-morrow gives her guest away.

* * * * *
Burnt up within by that strange soul
She cannot slake, or yet control:
Malignant-lipped, unkind, unsweet;
Past all example indiscreet;

Hectic, and always overstrung, -
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue.

To think that such as she can mar
Names that among the noblest are!
That hands like hers can touch the springs
That move who knows what men and things?

That on her will their fates have hung!
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue.


Richard LaGallienne, A British poet who had emigrated to the U.S., was so angry about the poem that he decided to pen an answer, titled  The Poet with the Coward's Tongue:

Made out of words, to sneer and sing?
A thing of words to scan and scan,
Yet dares to sign himself a man!
He's growing old, he is not young --
The Poet with the Coward's Tongue.

Was it a woman long ago
Went through the fires of her young womb
To bear this man who sings this song --
The Poet with the Coward's Tongue?

In truthful numbers he be sung --
The Poet with the Coward's Tongue --
Made out of words, to sneer and sing;
A thing of words, a paper thing.
A little book of classic song --
The Poet with the Coward's Tongue.

Think not the woman he betrayed
Name all unknown -- is thus portrayed,
Poor poet starved for her strange eyes,
Despairs, tells all of us strange lies,
But there's an answer to his song --
O, Woman with the Serpent's Tongue!

O, Poet with the Coward's Tongue.
Come to New York and you shall know,
O, Singer of the Coward's Song,
His fate who sings a woman so.

Come to New York and face the men
Who sing not, yet whose life is song,
Because they love their women and would die
Rather than tell a William Watson lie
About a woman -- even in a song,
O, Poet with the Coward's Tongue.

ENVOI
Was he a 'guest' who dares to wrong
His hostess in so foul a song,
O, Poet with the Coward's Tongue?

Labels: Herriman's LA Examiner Cartoons

Yet another entry from Carmichael's "I Love My Wife But Oh You Kid" series, more formally known as Series 565 from Taylor & Pratt.

Interesting thing here is that this postcard was sent by Belle to her friend Marcia. The hand-written "Belle" underneath the damsel would seem to be a rather blatant admission that she flirts with married men. Get the smelling salts!

Labels: Wish You Were Here

A new week has begun and we'll continue on our quest to index Hearst magazine cover series.

I sure wish I had some way to title these series so that I could talk with some clarity about them. But I'm not even sure of what I'm doing, much less how to identify which is which. So, rather than trying to come up with some cockamamie name, I'm going to tell you that the series we're going to trace today is one that diverged from the series we talked about last week in 1935. Why this happened I couldn't even begin to guess.

What I can say is that this series tends to concentrate on pin-ups created by many very big name artists. I'm talking Petty, Barclay, Christy, La Gatta, Armstrong, etc.

This divergent series was found in  the El Paso Times.

Perhaps the most interesting discovery for comic strip fans is that Alex Raymod contributed three superb covers (above). I have none in tearsheet form, so the best I can offer are images from the microfilm.

Date	Title	Artist	Syndicate
9/15/35	Back to Horse and Buggy Days	George Shellhase	KFS
9/22/35	Got Room For Two?	John Newton Howitt	KFS
9/29/35	Come Over the Meadows With Me and Play	Alan Foster	KFS
10/6/35	Woof! Who Said Quintuplets	J. Clinton Shepherd	KFS
10/13/35	The Resemblance is Uncanny	Janice Wathen	KFS
10/20/35	My Favorite Model	George Petty	KFS
10/27/35	The Bewitcher Bewitched	John Newton Howitt	KFS
11/3/35	Splash Me, Would You?	J.W. Welch	KFS
11/10/35	The Unknown Soldier and the Forgotten Ones	Wallace Morgan	KFS
11/17/35	Flaming Jean Harlow - And They Call Her "Kittens"	J. Cannert	KFS
11/24/35	Forward, Pass	Ty Mahon	KFS
12/1/35	It Must Have Been That Earthquake	Paul Webb	KFS
12/8/35	The Back Seat Driver	Alex Raymond	KFS
12/15/35	Dream Prince of the Screen	George F. Kerr	KFS
12/22/35	A Christmas Carol	Alex Raymond	KFS
12/29/35	With My Compliments -- "Pop" Time	Alex Raymond	KFS
1/5/36	Armed For The Combat	Howard Chandler Christy	KFS
1/12/36	Waiting For That Dinner Date	Howard Chandler Christy	KFS
1/19/36	Merely A Matter Of Form (verses by Berton Braley)	John J. Floherty Jr.	KFS
1/26/36	Lady of the Dialogue	Howard Chandler Christy	KFS
2/2/36	Off Duty	Floyd R. Munson	KFS
2/9/36	St. Valentine's Day	Signature illegible	KFS
2/16/36	Debutante 1936	Howard Chandler Christy	KFS
2/23/36	Florida Fair	John Lagatta	KFS
3/1/36	Kitty Rides The Waves (verses by Berton Braley)	John Held Jr.	KFS
3/8/36	Check and Double Check (verses by Berton Braley)	John Held Jr.	KFS
3/15/36	Studio Queen	McClelland Barclay	KFS
3/22/36	Positively! (verses by Berton Braley)	Gwen Tucker	KFS
3/29/36	Blonde Betty of Beverly Hills	McClelland Barclay	KFS
4/5/36	Wedded To Her Job (verses by Berton Braley)	John Held Jr.	KFS
4/12/36	Easter Lily	Major Felten	KFS
4/19/36	Untitled (mother holding child)	Maud Tousey Fangel	KFS
4/26/36	Anticipation	Rodney de Sarro	KFS
5/3/36	Untitled (woman in dueling garb)	George Petty	KFS
5/10/36	Untitled (woman and flowering tree)	Corinne Malvern	KFS
5/17/36	Aw, Pal, Have a Heart	John Newton Howitt	KFS
5/24/36	Jean Chatburn	McClelland Barclay	KFS
5/31/36	Poppies for Remembrance	Wallace Morgan	KFS
6/7/36	Play Girl (verses by Berton Braley)	John Alan Maxwell	KFS
6/14/36	Swing High, Lovely Bride	George Petty	KFS
6/21/36	Son Dodgers 1936	McClelland Barclay	KFS
6/28/36	Maybe He's a Mutt, But He's Mine	Maud Tousey Fangel	KFS
7/5/36	My Country Tis Of Thee	Nell Brinkley	KFS
7/12/36	Night Club Nellie (verses by Berton Braley)	John Held Jr.	KFS
7/19/36	Draw To A Pair (verses by Berton Braley)	McClelland Barclay	KFS
7/26/36	Untitled (blonde and bruette women)	Nell Brinkley	KFS
8/2/36	Sweet and Cool	McClelland Barclay	KFS
8/9/36	?	?	?
8/16/36	Never-Never Land (verses by Berton Braley)	Bud Briggs	KFS
8/23/36	Prairie Flowers	Nell Brinkley	KFS
8/30/36	Vacation Dreams	McClelland Barclay	KFS
9/6/36	The New Old-Fashioned Girl	Dean Cornwell	KFS
9/13/36	Title illegible	McClelland Barclay	KFS
9/20/36	Gridiron Glories	George Petty	KFS
9/27/36	The Six Ages of a Girl	John Held Jr.	KFS
10/4/36	The Bachelor Girl and the Bores	Vincente	KFS
10/11/36	Dillinger Speaks by G. Russell Girardin (story illo)	Earl Cordrey	KFS
10/18/36	Perfect Backs	McClelland Barclay	KFS
10/25/36	Woman - The Same Eternal Question	Corinne Malvern (w/Charles Dana Gibson)	KFS
11/1/36	Away With Your Pride, Lassie	Barton Clay	KFS
11/8/36	And Just Where Did This Little Pig Come From?	Earl Cordrey	KFS
11/15/36	The Decision	Earl Cordrey	KFS
11/22/36	Know All Men (verses by Berton Braley)	McClelland Barclay	KFS
11/29/36	A Single?	Vincentini	KFS
12/6/36	Portrait of a Lovely Woman	Christopher Rule	KFS
12/13/36	Hold Everything	Earl Cordrey	KFS
12/20/36	Christ at Five	C. Bosseron Chambers	KFS
12/27/36	To 1937	George Petty	KFS
1/3/37	Right Man Wanted	McClelland Barclay	KFS
1/10/37	Untitled skiing woman	Arthur Crouch	KFS
1/17/37	Trouble Ahead	D.B. Holcomb	KFS
1/24/37	On Sands of Gold	McClelland Barclay	KFS
1/31/37	Touch and Go	Frank Reeser	KFS
2/7/37	Happy Landing	McClelland Barclay	KFS
2/14/37	Heart to Believe (verses by Berton Braley)	Arthur Crouch	KFS
2/21/37	It's a Nice Trip (verses by Berton Braley)	Arthur Crouch	KFS
2/28/37	Preview of Spring	McClelland Barclay	KFS
3/7/37	Skyline Dream Idols	signature illegible	KFS
3/14/37	Over The Cocktails	John La Gatta	KFS
3/21/37	Spring Is Here	Rolf Armstrong	KFS
3/28/37	Peace - A Woman's Prayer For Easter	Major Felten	KFS
4/4/37	photo cover		KFS
4/11/37	photo cover		KFS
4/18/37	photo cover		KFS
4/25/37	photo cover		KFS
5/2/37	Rivals	Joseph Lopker	KFS
5/9/37	Gentlemen, the Empress of Hearts (verses by Berton Braley)	George Petty	KFS
5/16/37	Do You Like It?	McClelland Barclay	KFS
5/23/37	photo cover		KFS
5/30/37	Here Comes The Bride	McClelland Barclay	KFS
6/6/37	The Love Lecture	Carl Mueller	KFS
6/13/37	photo cover		KFS
6/20/37	A Candid 50-50	John J. Floherty Jr.	KFS
6/27/37	Untitled woman caught in rain at beach	Arthur Crouch	KFS
7/4/37	In Congress	Joan Rogers	KFS
7/11/37	Untitled woman on blow-up float toy in water	Arthur Crouch	KFS
7/18/37	Back Seat Driver	Ski Weld	KFS
7/25/37	Cup Defender, 1937	Ski Weld	KFS
8/1/37	Honeymoon Eclipse	Carl Mueller	KFS
8/8/37	A New Design For Fishes	John J. Floherty Jr.	KFS
8/15/37	Lucky Dog (photographed sculpture)	Alan Foster	KFS
8/22/37	photo cover		KFS
8/29/37	Putting On The Dog	Ski Weld	KFS
9/5/37	Had A Wonderful Time	Howard Butler	KFS
9/12/37	The Knit-Wit	Earl Oliver Hurst	KFS
9/19/37	Wrong Number	Scott Evans	KFS
9/26/37	Rating The Dream Men	Howard Butler	KFS
10/3/37	Untitled woman watching greyhound race	Arthur Crouch	KFS
10/10/37	Untitled football player	Howard Butler	KFS
10/17/37	The Brave And The Fair	Earl Oliver Hurst	KFS
10/24/37	When You're In Love	Eric Godal	KFS
10/31/37	She Missed Her Man	Howard Butler	KFS
11/7/37	First Down	Howard Butler	KFS
11/14/37	Hold That Line	Scott Evans	KFS
11/21/37	Pilgrim Penelope and the Turkey	Arthur Crouch	KFS
11/28/37	Seeing Double	Scott Evans	KFS
12/5/37	Modern Diana	Scott Evans	KFS
12/12/37	Betty Can't Decide	Scott Evans	KFS
12/19/37	Every Woman	Howard Butler	KFS
12/26/37	Under The Mistletoe	Dan Osher	KFS

I gave up writing this index at the end of 1937, as I didn't see any series developing. Looking ahead, this cover series went on into the 1940s, looking pretty much like they stuck to their guns of featuring mostly pin-up covers.There are lots of great covers, just not really in my research focus. If anyone has the time and inclination to continue this index, I'll be very happy to publish it.

Labels: Magazine Cover Comics

By 1935, this series that was so dynamic in  the early 1930s was getting a little less exciting. However, what they now lacked in interesting series, they more than made up for with first rate cover artists.

A quick note that I noticed in another paper that the Penrhyn Stanlaws cover series of 1935 was headlined "Girlologies" -- the Inquirer elected to drop that title. Can't say I blame them ...

Date	Title	Artist	Syndicate
1/6/35	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
1/13/35	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
1/20/35	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
1/27/35	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
2/3/35	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
2/10/35	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
2/17/35	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
2/24/35	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/3/35	Lovingly Yours, Arline	Jack Callahan	King Features Syndicate
3/10/35	Glamorous Girls	McCelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/17/35	Glamorous Girls	McCelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/24/35	Glamorous Girls	McCelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/31/35	The Party Girl	Penrhyn Stanlaws	King Features Syndicate
4/7/35	The Model	Penrhyn Stanlaws	King Features Syndicate
4/14/35	The Swimming Girl	Penrhyn Stanlaws	King Features Syndicate
4/21/35	Easter Vis-a-Vis	Henry Raleigh	King Features Syndicate
4/28/35	The Hiker	Penrhyn Stanlaws	King Features Syndicate
5/5/35	Spring Reverie	Roy Best	King Features Syndicate
5/12/35	Au Revoir	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
5/19/35	How Do I Look?	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
5/26/35	Souls of Flowers	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
6/2/35	Sea-Side Vision	Earl Christy	King Features Syndicate
6/9/35	Hoyden, Ahoy	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
6/16/35	Two Weeks With ...	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
6/23/35	Bride o' June	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
6/30/35	Oh, Say Can You See?	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
7/7/35	Midsummer Day's Dream	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
7/14/35	Right On Deck	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
7/21/35	All in a Day	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
7/28/35	Lady of the Line	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
8/4/35	Hot House or Garden?	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
8/11/35	Upsadaisy	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
8/18/35	On Guard	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
8/25/35	So Long, Summer	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
9/1/35	Mighty Moment	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
9/8/35	Dance Moderne	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
9/15/35	Want No Books	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
9/22/35	Last of the Leaves	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
9/29/35	Hollywoodn't (text by Jack Lait)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
10/6/35	Hollywoodn't (text by Jack Lait)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
10/13/35	Hollywoodn't (text by Jack Lait)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
10/20/35	Hollywoodn't (text by Jack Lait)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
10/27/35	Grid-Wid	Paul Frehm	King Features Syndicate
11/3/35	Snap To It	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
11/10/35	Winter Campaign	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
11/17/35	Adagio	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
11/24/35	She's The how	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
12/1/35	Beauty and the Beaus	Paul Frehm	King Features Syndicate
12/8/35	Beauty and the Beaus	Paul Frehm	King Features Syndicate
12/15/35	Beauty and the Beaus	Paul Frehm	King Features Syndicate
12/22/35	Beauty and the Beaus	Paul Frehm	King Features Syndicate
12/29/35	Beauty and the Beaus	Paul Frehm	King Features Syndicate
1/5/36	Setting Up Exercises	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
1/12/36	Go South, Young Man	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
1/19/36	Monday's Child	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
1/26/36	Tuesday's Child	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
2/2/36	Wednesday's Child	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
2/9/36	Thursday's Child	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
2/16/36	Friday's Child	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
2/23/36	Saturday's Child	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
3/1/36	Sunday's Child	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
3/8/36	He's Gone	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
3/15/36	Last Week-end	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
3/22/36	Party Line	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
3/29/36	Indoor Gypsy	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
4/5/36	Fan-dango	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
4/12/36	April Showers	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
4/19/36	Hike-Ho Everybody	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
4/26/36	Swing Music	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
5/3/36	White Russian	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
5/10/36	A Study in Balance	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
5/17/36	The Lady of the Lake - She's Drifting -- So's He	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
5/24/36	The Girl on the Yacht - Starboard Tack	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
5/31/36	The Girl In The Garden -- They Toil Not ...	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
6/7/36	The Girl on the Bike -- Coasting On High	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
6/14/36	The Surf-Board Rider -- Buoyant Belle	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
6/21/36	Dude Ranch Girl -- Ride 'Im Cowboy	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
6/28/36	The Perfume Girl -- Sweets to the Sweet	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
7/5/36	The Sun-Tan Girl -- Good Medicine	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
7/12/36	The Love-Letter Girl -- The Big Question	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
7/19/36	The Love-Set Girl -- Fair Racqueteer	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
7/26/36	The Girl with Sand in Her Shoe -- Sandy Cinderella	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
8/2/36	Plow-Time Girl -- The Farmer and the Belle	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
8/9/36	The Lady or the Porcupine	John Holmgren	King Features Syndicate
8/16/36	Two In The Woods	Charles LaSalle	King Features Syndicate
8/23/36	The Grapevine Girl -- A Vineyard Vision	Raeburn Van Beuren	King Features Syndicate
8/30/36	Water Babies -- Goodbye Summer	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
9/6/36	Dizzy Dolly Ditties (verses by Hudson Hawley)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
9/13/36	Margy's Mascots (verses by Hudson Hawley)	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
9/20/36	Dizzy Dolly Ditties (verses by Hudson Hawley)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
9/27/36	Margy Arouses Cheers (verses by Hudson Hawley)	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
10/4/36	What's a Girl To Do (verses by Hudson Hawley)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
10/11/36	Margy's A-Musing (verses by Hudson Hawley)	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
10/18/36	The Lens-Mad Maid (verses by Hudson Hawley)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
10/25/36	Margy's Mutts	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
11/1/36	Football Heroine (verses by Hudson Hawley)	Virginia Huget	King Features Syndicate
11/8/36	Margy's A-Flutter (verses by Hudson Hawley)	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate

The Philadelphia Inquirer at this point started making their own magazine covers in-house. Can't say as I blame them, because this cover series was about to go way downhill. A new series titled America on Parade, which was a real yawner, was about to begin. I was able to switch from the Inquirer to the Minneapolis Tribune to continue this index, but not for long:

Date	Title	Artist	Syndicate
11/15/36	Dizzy Dolly Ditties	Virginia Huget	KFS
11/22/36	A Thanksgiving Miss [Margy] (verses by Hudson Hawley)	John Held Jr.	KFS
11/29/36	Dizzy Dolly Ditties	Virginia Huget	KFS
12/6/36	Margy Goes Modern (verses by Hudson Hawley)	John Held Jr.	KFS
12/13/36	Dizzy Dolly Ditties	Virginia Huget	KFS
12/20/36	First Christmas	Nell Brinkley	KFS
12/27/36	All Dated Up [Margy]	John Held Jr.	KFS
1/3/37	America on Parade (text by Leonard Hall)	Oscar W. Howard	KFS
1/10/37	America On Parade - The King Who Is Queen (uncredited text)	Paul Frehm	KFS
1/17/37	America On Parade - Where Two Worlds Meet (uncredited text)	Oscar W. Howard	KFS
1/24/37	America On Parade - The Big Town Criers (text by Leonard Hall)	Oscar W. Howard	KFS
1/31/37	America On Parade - New York's Biggest Free Show (text uncredited)	Frank Resser	KFS
2/7/37	America On parade - Going Down to Sea (text by Leonard Hall)	Raeburn Van Beuren	KFS
2/14/37	America On Parade - Met at the Met (uncredited text)	Wallace Morgan	KFS
2/21/37	America On Parade - Yangski Doodle Do (uncredited text)	John Holmgren	KFS
2/28/37	America On Parade - Greenwich Village is Green Again (text by Leonard Hall)	Oscar W. Howard	KFS
3/7/37	America On Parade - New Art For Old	various	KFS
3/14/37	America On Parade - Off On The Trailer Trails (text by Leonard Hall)	Oscar W. Howard	KFS
3/21/37	The Sun Shines Bright Again in the Old Kentucky Home	Dorothea Cooke	KFS
3/28/37	America On Easter Parade (text by Hudson Hawley)	John Held Jr.	KFS
4/4/37	America On Parade - Illustrating The Illustrators (text by Leonard Hall)	John Holmgren	KFS
4/11/37	America On Parade - Dog Days (uncredited text)	Oscar W. Howard	KFS
4/18/37	America On Parade - America On Taptoe (test by Leonard Hall)	Johan Bull	KFS
4/25/37	America On Parade - Selecting Our Greatest Heroine (uncredited text)	Nell Brinkley	KFS
5/2/37	America On Parade - Coronation in the Sport of Kings (text by Frank G. Menke)	Wesley Dennis	KFS

At this point the Minneapolis Tribune said the heck with Hearst, and started instead running the World Museum Diorama pages offered by Esquire Features. This Hearst cover series may have continued, but I frankly couldn't bring myself to search for it very hard.

Next time we'll look at a series that diverged from this one in September 1935.

Labels: Magazine Cover Comics

We left off yesterday at the end of 1929, when Dan Smith's long reign on one of the Hearst magazine covers was coming to an end. The thread of this series continues after Smith's departure, now featuring some of my favorite 'comic strip' magazine cover series. Of course, in the magazine cover world, they aren't formatted like strips so much as a series of vignettes, but they tell a story from 'panel' to 'panel', so I say they're strips.

Dan Smith's Pancho Rancho ends on December 15 1929, and I can't figure out from any paper what was supposed to appear on December 22. So our index starts on December 29 1929, and still comes from the Montana Standard. You'll see some familiar titles here, as some have been covered on the Stripper's Guide blog.

We begin with the last four installments of a series titled High-Hat Hattie, which seems to have been stuck into this series from another to fill a hole. We'll cover that series again in its entirety later in another index. This is another good indication that this particular magazine cover series was in a state of flux, if not utter disarray. Was the end of Dan Smith's tenure unexpected, and they were caught scrambling?

 

Date	Title	Artist	Syndicate
12/29/29	High-hat Hattie	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
1/5/30	High-hat Hattie	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
1/12/30	High-hat Hattie	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
1/19/30	High-hat Hattie	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
1/26/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
2/2/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
2/9/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
2/16/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
2/23/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
3/2/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
3/9/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
3/16/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
3/23/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
3/30/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
4/6/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
4/13/30	Sunday Follies	L.T.Holton	Newspaper Feature Service
4/20/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
4/27/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
5/4/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
5/11/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
5/18/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
5/25/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
6/1/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
6/8/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
6/15/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
6/22/30	Campus Capers	Virginia Huget	Newspaper Feature Service
6/29/30	What Price Vacation	Jack Welch	Newspaper Feature Service
7/6/30	What Price Vacation	Jack Welch	Newspaper Feature Service
7/13/30	What Price Vacation	Jack Welch	Newspaper Feature Service
7/20/30	What Price Vacation	Jack Welch	Newspaper Feature Service
7/27/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
8/3/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
8/10/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
8/17/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
8/24/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
8/31/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
9/7/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
9/14/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
9/21/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
9/28/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
10/5/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
10/12/30	Desert Love	Dan Smith	Newspaper Feature Service
10/19/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
10/26/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
11/2/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
11/9/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
11/16/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
11/23/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
11/30/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
12/7/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
12/14/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
12/21/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
12/28/30	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
1/4/31	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
1/11/31	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
1/18/31	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
1/25/31	Betty's Office Romance	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
2/1/31	Hearts and Clubs	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
2/8/31	Hearts and Clubs	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
2/15/31	Hearts and Clubs	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
2/22/31	Hearts and Clubs	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
3/1/31	The March Girl	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
3/8/31	Pretty as a Picture	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
3/15/31	Signs of Spring	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
3/22/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
3/29/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service
4/5/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	Newspaper Feature Service

At this point the Montana Standard craps out on me. Luckily I find that the Philadelphia Inquirer stuck with this particular magazine series, and ran the series on time, thus keeping my index looking nicely consistent.

The Inquirer, though, displays copyrights not to NFS but to King Features. I compared material from the two papers, and yes, one credited the same covers to King as the other did to NFS! There's proof that the whole "track the cover series by their syndicate stamps" is a rule that will just lead you down the garden path.



 

Date	Title	Artist	Syndicate
4/12/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
4/19/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
4/26/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
5/3/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
5/10/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
5/17/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
5/24/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
5/31/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
6/7/31	Sally's So Sentimental	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
6/14/31	Oh, You, Patricia	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
6/21/31	Oh, You, Patricia	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
6/28/31	Oh, You, Patricia	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
7/5/31	Oh, You, Patricia	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
7/12/31	Oh, You, Patricia	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
7/19/31	Oh, You, Patricia	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
7/26/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
8/2/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
8/9/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
8/16/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
8/23/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
8/30/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
9/6/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
9/13/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
9/20/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
9/27/31	Winky's Week-Ends	Jefferson Machamer	King Features Syndicate
10/4/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/11/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/18/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/25/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/1/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/8/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/15/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/22/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/29/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/6/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/13/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/20/31	Let's Run Away	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/27/31	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
1/3/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
1/10/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
1/17/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
1/24/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
1/31/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
2/7/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
2/14/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
2/21/32	Many Happy Returns	George F. Kerr	King Features Syndicate
2/28/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
3/6/32	Shirley's Millions	Philip Loring	King Features Syndicate
3/13/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
3/20/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
3/27/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
4/3/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
4/10/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
4/17/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
4/24/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
5/1/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
5/8/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
5/15/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
5/22/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
5/29/32	Don't Tell Auntie	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
6/5/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
6/12/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
6/19/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
6/26/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
7/3/32	Independence Day	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate
7/10/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
7/17/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
7/24/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
7/31/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
8/7/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
8/14/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
8/21/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
8/28/32	Sylvia the Deb Detective	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
9/4/32	Sylvia Vamps the Villain (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F.James	King Features Syndicate
9/11/32	Romance of a Stolen Jewel (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
9/18/32	At the End of Her Rope (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
9/25/32	Oops, Good Bye Jewel (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/2/32	Jeweled Claws! What a Bird! (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/9/32	Fair Exchange, No Robbery (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/16/32	The Scimitar on the Stairs (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/23/32	Jewels and Wedding Bells (Sylvia the Deb Detective)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
10/30/32	The Gold Cobweb by Charles Samuels (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/6/32	The Gold Cobweb by Charles Samuels (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/13/32	The Gold Cobweb by Charles Samuels (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/20/32	The Gold Cobweb by Charles Samuels (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
11/27/32	The Gold Cobweb by Charles Samuels (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/4/32	The Gold Cobweb by Charles Samuels (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/11/32	To Meet Miss Mary Christmas (story illo, writer uncredited)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/18/32	To Meet Miss Mary Christmas (story illo, writer uncredited)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
12/25/32	The Real Christmas Story of the Best-Loved Christmas Carol (aticle illo)	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate
1/1/33	Beware the Blonde by Arthur Mason (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
1/8/33	Beware the Blonde by Arthur Mason (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
1/15/33	Beware the Blonde by Arthur Mason (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
1/22/33	Beware the Blonde by Arthur Mason (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
1/29/33	Beware the Blonde by Arthur Mason (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
2/5/33	Beware the Blonde by Arthur Mason (story illo)	R.F. James	King Features Syndicate
2/12/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
2/19/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
2/26/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
3/5/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
3/12/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
3/19/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
3/26/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
4/2/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
4/9/33	The Princess From Nowhere	Nell Brinkley	King Features Syndicate
4/16/33	Juliet a la Jazz	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
4/23/33	Juliet a la Jazz	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
4/30/33	Juliet a la Jazz	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
5/7/33	Juliet a la Jazz	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
5/14/33	Juliet a la Jazz	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
5/21/33	Juliet a la Jazz	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
5/28/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
6/4/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
6/11/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
6/18/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
6/25/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
7/2/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
7/9/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
7/16/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
7/23/33	The Ambassador	Otto Soglow	King Features Syndicate
7/30/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
8/6/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
8/13/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
8/20/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
8/27/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
9/3/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
9/10/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
9/17/33	Around Town with the Whoops Sisters	Peter Arno	King Features Syndicate
9/24/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
10/1/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
10/8/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
10/15/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
10/22/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
10/29/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
11/5/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
11/12/33	Mitzi the Model	James Montgomery Flagg	King Features Syndicate
11/19/33	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
11/26/33	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
12/3/33	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
12/10/33	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
12/17/33	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
12/24/33	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
12/31/33	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
1/7/34	Betty's Blue Eagle	Russell Patterson	King Features Syndicate
1/14/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
1/21/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
1/28/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
2/4/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
2/11/34	Girls I Adore (text by Alice-Leone Moats)	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
2/18/34	Girls I Adore (text by Alice-Leone Moats)	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
2/25/34	Girls I Adore (text by Alice-Leone Moats)	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/4/34	Girls I Adore (text by Alice-Leone Moats)	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/11/34	Girls I Adore (text by Alice-Leone Moats)	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/18/34	Girls I Adore (text by Alice-Leone Moats)	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
3/25/34	Lucky Lady (verses by Berton Braley)	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
4/1/34	Lucky Lady (verses by Berton Braley)	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
4/8/34	Lucky Lady (verses by Berton Braley)	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
4/15/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
4/22/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
4/29/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
5/6/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
5/13/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
5/20/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
5/27/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
6/3/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
6/10/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
6/17/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
6/24/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
7/1/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
7/8/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
7/15/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
7/22/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
7/29/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
8/5/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
8/12/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
8/19/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
8/26/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
9/2/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
9/9/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
9/16/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
9/23/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
9/30/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
10/7/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
10/14/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
10/21/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
10/28/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
11/4/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
11/11/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
11/18/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
11/25/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
12/2/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
12/9/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
12/16/34	Lucky Lady	John Held Jr.	King Features Syndicate
12/23/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate
12/30/34	Glamorous Girls	McClelland Barclay	King Features Syndicate

Okay, that's enough for one post. We'll pick up here tomorrow with 1935 and on.

Labels: Magazine Cover Comics

A few months back I tried to put together an index of the American Weekly Sunday magazine covers. With the help of you blog readers, I was able to turn my index, which started out shot through with holes like a Swiss cheese, into a near perfect one.

Unfortunately, publishing that index worked out so well that I got the crazy idea that maybe -- just maybe -- I could succeed in indexing the other Hearst magazine cover series. The problem with the others is that, unlike the American Weekly, these magazine covers are not identified with a running title or masthead. Which might not necessarily be an insurmountable problem, except that there are definitely multiple cover series in play. Seemingly we are offered two identifying characteristics:

1. Unless a newspaper routs it out, each cover displays a copyright to a syndicate. Hearst is known to have run magazine cover series under three different syndicates: International Feature Service (IFS), Newspaper Feature Service (NFS) and King Features Syndicate.
2. Newspapers thankfully tend to stick with one magazine cover series for a long period. Therefore, in theory, we can assume that the series being run by newspaper X is consistent from week to week for long periods.

Unfortunately I found out as I worked at the indexes that neither rule is nearly as helpful as expected. While I was blissfully left alone by the routerman, everything else seemed to be stacked against me. Not only do many of the newspapers I followed seem to have a penchant for switching series, but far worse, the Hearst syndicates sometimes seem to play pin the tail on the donkey with their syndicate stamps. The exact same cover can be stamped with different syndicate stamps, depending on which newspaper was using it. To add more complexity, it's typical to find multiple papers that run the same series but running the material weeks off track from each other.

So I went in expecting to have a pretty clean delineation; there'd be an IFS series, an NFS series and a King series, each of which followed its own and separate path. No such luck. My indexes are a mess, and series seem to change from one syndicate to another for no obvious reason. Because of that, what I'm going to present here is a bit of a jumble. I'll try to annotate when things get weird and when I feel that I have insights.

My first index is for a series I didn't realize even existed when I began work. I knew Dan Smith had produced quite a few Hearst magazine covers, but I discovered that he basically had his own series throughout the 1920s.

The Dan Smith cover series begins in May 1921, when he took over as the cover illustrator on a feature magazine that had previously concentrated mostly on photos and uncredited illustrations for its covers. When Smith arrived, the covers continued to often feature a photo or two, but they became secondary aspects of the design, which featured large Dan Smith drawings and usually a few paragraphs of text story. When the series began, the cover subjects were generally about bizarre news stories, fashion and culture. Later on the series subjects would evolve in several different directions.

Date	Title	Syndicate
5/15/21	An Indian Lover's Curse Fulfilled at Last	International Feature Service
5/22/21	Science Sanctions Flirtation	International Feature Service
5/29/21	The Poppy Girl	International Feature Service
6/5/21	The Strangest Wedding That Ever Happened	International Feature Service
6/12/21	How Red Hair Made a New Reno in Europe	International Feature Service
6/19/21	Girl Bull Fighters - Mexico's Latest Fling	International Feature Service
6/26/21	The Woman Judge Who Gives Husbands a Square Deal	International Feature Service
7/3/21	We Want Our Own Star in the Flag	International Feature Service
7/10/21	The Tragedy of the Loveless Marriage	International Feature Service
7/17/21	Who'll Bid For This Beauty?	International Feature Service
7/24/21	The Battle Against Bare Legs	International Feature Service
7/31/21	The Beauty Whose Make-Up Has Lasted 8,000 Years	International Feature Service
8/7/21	The New Bareback Dianas of the Surf	International Feature Service
8/14/21	Why Do Men Marry Their Stenographers	International Feature Service
8/21/21	Is Woman Leaving Her Pedestal?	International Feature Service
8/28/21	Are Men More Merciful Than Women?	International Feature Service
9/4/21	The Law Defines a "Vamp"	International Feature Service
9/11/21	The New Beauty Doctor -- The Baby	International Feature Service
9/18/21	Fashion Now Fancies Fish Scales	International Feature Service
9/25/21	What Is Your Husband Worth To You?	International Feature Service
10/2/21	Italy's Astonishing Matrimonial Lottery	International Feature Service
10/9/21	Love's Newest Triumph -- The Germ-Proof Wedding	International Feature Service
10/16/21	Fashion's Astonishing Flop -- From Knees to Trains	International Feature Service
10/23/21	How Would You Solve this Mother-Love Problem?	International Feature Service
10/30/21	Has a Wife the Right to Choose Her Successor?	International Feature Service
11/6/21	Fashion Reflects the Red Man's Robes	International Feature Service
11/13/21	Good-bye to the Overalls	International Feature Service
11/20/21	Thanksgiving Time	International Feature Service
11/27/21	The New Romances Tell Everything	International Feature Service
12/4/21	No More European Women For Me	International Feature Service
12/11/21	Will Chicago's Social Leader Seize the New York Sceptre	International Feature Service
12/18/21	The King and Queen of Christmas	International Feature Service
12/25/21	Christmas	International Feature Service
1/1/22	Will 1922 Bring Romantic Clothes?	International Feature Service
1/15/22	The American Makes the Best Lover	International Feature Service
1/22/22	"I Want a Cave Man Husband"	International Feature Service
1/29/22	Why Europe's Most Picturesque Queen hanged Her Mind	International Feature Service
2/5/22	The Greatest Wedding of the Year	International Feature Service
2/12/22	Marrying a Pilot on the Wing	International Feature Service
2/19/22	The Much-Watched Marriage of the "Wonder Girl"	International Feature Service
2/26/22	Has the Lipstick Come To Stay?	International Feature Service
3/5/22	Life-Size Dolls for Tea Company	International Feature Service
3/12/22	America's Pyramid City of the Future	International Feature Service
3/19/22	Science Finds the Secret of the Poison Pen	International Feature Service
3/26/22	Will the Tom-Tom Displace Jazz?	International Feature Service
4/2/22	He Followed Her Fandango Feet for 20,000 Miles	International Feature Service
4/9/22	Love -- Or a Million Dollars?	International Feature Service
4/16/22	The New Search for the Holy Grail	International Feature Service
4/23/22	They All Want Red Hair	International Feature Service
4/30/22	Society and Science Turn to Spiritualism	International Feature Service
5/7/22	Sport and Romance Behind the Dog Team	International Feature Service
5/14/22	The Excitement of Marrying an Indian	International Feature Service
5/21/22	The Girl and the Buried Treasure	International Feature Service
5/28/22	The Daisy's Memorial Day Message	International Feature Service
6/4/22	Has Prohibition Boomed the Beauty Parlor?	International Feature Service
6/11/22	The Flapper Jockey's in the Lead	International Feature Service
6/18/22	Painting Pictures Under The Sea	International Feature Service
6/25/22	New Complexions Mean a Color Bath	International Feature Service
7/2/22	A Radio "Fourth" the Season's Novelty	International Feature Service
7/9/22	Today's Priscilla Saves a Town	International Feature Service
7/16/22	The Ending of the Wild Life Era	International Feature Service
7/23/22	The Prince's Eleven Black Cats -- And the Bishop's Tirade	International Feature Service
7/30/22	America's Greatest Girl Rider	International Feature Service
8/6/22	The Girl Who is Hiking Alone 'Round the World	International Feature Service
8/13/22	Zoo Fans	International Feature Service
8/20/22	The Romance of the Olympic Champions	International Feature Service
8/27/22	Beach Ball for Girls Only	International Feature Service
9/3/22	Ears to be Worn Again	International Feature Service
9/10/22	Back to the Dashing Sport of Robin Hood	International Feature Service
9/17/22	Is She America's Bravest Girl?	International Feature Service
9/24/22	Rugs and Curtains for Costumes	International Feature Service
10/1/22	Sees New York -- "Give Me Oklahoma," Says Indian Heiress	International Feature Service
10/8/22	Make Way for the Biggest Hats Ever	International Feature Service
10/15/22	The Craze for Strange Pets	International Feature Service
10/22/22	The Strange Furore over Russian Color	International Feature Service
10/29/22	The Return of the Bull Dog	International Feature Service
11/5/22	The Girl Who Must Not Marry	International Feature Service
11/12/22	The Newest Sport Thrill - Gliding	International Feature Service
11/19/22	When Spain's Queen Comes To America	International Feature Service
11/26/22	Harvest Home	International Feature Service
12/3/22	The Sensation of Silk Wigs	International Feature Service
12/10/22	The Hockey Girl	International Feature Service
12/17/22	In Santa Claus's Workshop	International Feature Service
12/24/22	Christmas Friends	International Feature Service
12/31/22	Miss 1923-Athlete And Worker	International Feature Service
1/7/23	Now The Game Is Mah Jongg	International Feature Service
1/14/23	The Strangest of all Honeymoons	International Feature Service
1/21/23	The Ice Girl	International Feature Service
1/28/23	Tattooing Helps The Health, Says Science	International Feature Service
2/4/23	The Fascinating Fad of Earrings	International Feature Service
2/11/23	An Aurora Borealis Wedding	International Feature Service
2/18/23	Science Has a New Theory About Fighting Bulls	International Feature Service
2/25/23	Painting Beauty's Secret Soul	International Feature Service
3/4/23	The Camel's Domain Conquered By The Tank	International Feature Service
3/11/23	The Accordion Has Come Back	International Feature Service

I tired of typing in all these titles after a few year's worth, because as you probably know, my primary interest is in cover series -- these one-shot covers are interesting, but sort of tangential. In this first section of the Dan Smith index I used as my sources Buffalo Times for the 1921 material, then switched over to the Minneapolis Tribune for 1922-23. If some reader would like this index to be complete and is willing to put in the work of writing the index, I'll gladly add your information for the March 1923 - March 1926 material I jumped.

So having tired of the one-shot indexing, I jumped forward to looking for some change to the pattern. I finally found the Dan Smith covers changing in 1926. Let's pick back up in April 1926 with the last few one-shot covers. The first change is on May 9 1926, when the cover design switches from including text and photos along with the art, to a full page art piece. Then on May 23 Smith's syndicate slug transitions from IFS to King Features. At the same time, the 'newsy' covers end and the subject becomes attractive women in history and fiction. Obviously the syndicate change and the cover design change have something to do with each other.

Unfortunately, my source for Dan Smith covers (El Paso Times) dries up in June 1927, and so we're going to have a long gap just when things are getting interesting.

Date	Title	Syndicate
4/4/26	The Varied Splendors of Easter Time	International Feature Service
4/11/26	Lacrosse Comes Back	International Feature Service
4/18/26	The Smock Captures the Office Girl	International Feature Service
4/25/26	Archery on Horseback	International Feature Service
5/2/26	Front Lawn Golf	International Feature Service
5/9/26	If Spring Were Like the Artist Dreams It	International Feature Service (now full page illustration, no photos,text)
5/16/26	A Dream of the Horse	International Feature Service
5/23/26	The June Bride in Fairyland	International Feature Service / King Features Syndicate
5/30/26	A Mermaid Afternoon Tea	King Features Syndicate
6/6/26	A Pirate Story Without Words	King Features Syndicate
6/13/26	The First "Charleston" in Fairyland	King Features Syndicate
6/20/26	The First Air Flight in Fairyland	King Features Syndicate
6/27/26	American Heroines - Pocahontas	King Features Syndicate
7/4/26	American Heroines - Betsy Ross	King Features Syndicate
7/11/26	American Heroines - Priscilla	King Features Syndicate
7/18/26	American Heroines - Minnehaha	King Features Syndicate
7/25/26	American Heroines - Evangeline	King Features Syndicate
8/1/26	American Heroines - The Girl of the Golden West	King Features Syndicate
8/8/26	American Heroines - Molly Pitcher	King Features Syndicate
8/15/26	American Heroines - Dolly Madison	King Features Syndicate
8/22/26	American Heroines - Martha Washington	King Features Syndicate
8/29/26	American Heroines - The Pioneer Bicycle Girl	King Features Syndicate
9/5/26	American Heroines - The Settler's Wife	King Features Syndicate
9/12/26	American Heroines - Nancy Hanks and Young Lincoln	King Features Syndicate
9/19/26	American Heroines - The War Nurse	King Features Syndicate
9/26/26	American Heroines - The Pioneer Suffragist	King Features Syndicate
10/3/26	American Heroines - The Girl Rancher	King Features Syndicate
10/10/26	American Heroines - The Doctor	King Features Syndicate
10/17/26	American Heroines - The Girl Skipper	King Features Syndicate
10/24/26	American Heroines - The Lighthouse Girl	King Features Syndicate
10/31/26	American Heroines - The Farmerette	King Features Syndicate
11/7/26	American Heroines - The Big Game Hunter	King Features Syndicate
11/14/26	Famous Women - Joan of Arc	King Features Syndicate
11/21/26	Famous Women - Cleopatra and Anthony	King Features Syndicate
11/28/26	Famous Women - Lady Godiva	King Features Syndicate
12/5/26	Famous Women - Judith	King Features Syndicate
12/12/26	Famous Women - Salome	King Features Syndicate
12/19/26	An Old Time Christmas Eve	King Features Syndicate
12/26/26	Famous Women - Madame Dubarry	King Features Syndicate
1/2/27	Pythia, the Prophetess of Delphi	King Features Syndicate
1/9/27	Famous Women - Charlotte Corday	King Features Syndicate
1/16/27	Famous Women - Mary Queen of Scots in the Tower	King Features Syndicate
1/23/27	Famous Women - Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh	King Features Syndicate
1/30/27	Famous Women - Lucrezia Borgia	King Features Syndicate
2/6/27	Famous Women - Phyrne Before the Tribunal	King Features Syndicate
2/13/27	Famous Women - Circe	King Features Syndicate
2/20/27	Famous Women - Hagar and Ishmael	King Features Syndicate
2/27/27	Famous Women - Delilah	King Features Syndicate
3/6/27	Famous Women - The Daughter of Pharaoh	King Features Syndicate
3/13/27	Famous Women - Helen of Troy	King Features Syndicate
3/20/27	Famous Women - Madame Pompadour	King Features Syndicate
3/27/27	The Christian Martyr	King Features Syndicate
4/3/27	Salammbo	King Features Syndicate
4/10/27	Hero, Priestess of Venus	King Features Syndicate
4/17/27	The Spirit of Easter	King Features Syndicate
4/24/27	Famous Women - The Queen of Sheba	King Features Syndicate
5/1/27	Famous Women - Anne of Brittany	King Features Syndicate
5/8/27	Famous Women - Isabella of Spain	King Features Syndicate
5/15/27	The One-Two Ear Ring Love Code	International Feature Service (looks like a re-used old cover)
5/22/27	Famous Women - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi	King Features Syndicate
5/29/27	Penelope	King Features Syndicate
6/5/27	Famous Women - Queen Margaret of Denmark	King Features Syndicate

If anyone can find a paper online that ran the Dan Smith material in this gap, I'd very much like to know about it.

We pick up the Dan Smith thread at the Montana Standard in September 1928. The covers are now story illustrations. Unfortunately I lost this paper at the end of the year and was forced to switch again. :

Date	Title	Syndicate
9/16/28	Out of the Sky (uncredited story illo)	King Features Syndicate
9/23/28	Out of the Sky (uncredited story illo)	King Features Syndicate
9/30/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
10/7/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
10/14/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
10/21/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
10/28/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
11/4/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
11/11/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
11/18/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
11/25/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
12/2/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
12/9/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
12/16/28	The Circus Baby by James Aswell (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
12/23/28	The Eternal Flapper by Don Warren (story illo)	King Features Syndicate

I switched to Indianapolis Star, but that turned into a dead end -- got barely more than a month out of it (see below). However, it did fill in an interesting interlude when Dan Smith lost his spot temporarily to Louis Biedermann. Maybe Dan was given a well-deserved vacation. Note that the Star begins The Eternal Flapper two weeks earlier than the Standard did. Also, notice that in the Star on 12/2/28, Smith was still working on his historical women covers. This could well be a case where we have a couple strands of magazine cover DNA curling around each other, if you know what I mean. Maybe starting with the Standard we are actually seeing an entirely separate cover series, and Dan Smith was actually working on two parallel series? I told you that this index would be messy!

Date	Title	Cover Artist	Syndicate
12/2/28	Famous Romances - Princess Mary of the House of Tudor	Dan Smith	King Features Syndicate
12/9/28	The Eternal Flapper by Don Warren (story illo)	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate
12/16/28	The Eternal Flapper by Don Warren (story illo)	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate
12/23/28	The Eternal Flapper by Don Warren (story illo)	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate
12/30/28	The Eternal Flapper by Don Warren (story illo)	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate
1/6/29	The Eternal Flapper by Don Warren (story illo)	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate
1/13/29	The Eternal Flapper by Don Warren (story illo)	Louis Biedermann	King Features Syndicate

Now our paper has switched to the Detroit Free Press. It appears to me that the Free Press is one week late compared to the Indianapolis Star. in other words, if the Star had continued, they would have run the first installment of Nora's Ark on the 20th.

Noteworthy here is that we have another syndicate change, this one from King to NFS on 3/10/29. There is no obvious reason for this change, and the format and focus don't change. In fact, it happens right in the middle of a series.

What is more exciting is that we finally get to a couple series that are of special interest to me, in that they are continuing comic strip series by my definition. Honeymoon Island and Pancho Rancho finally get Dan Smith a couple spots in my book. A note on those two series: although the writer is uncredited, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if it is Don Warren, who wrote a number of stories in the same vein that Smith illustrated. 

Date	Title	Syndicate
1/27/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo) [start]	King Features Syndicate
2/3/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
2/10/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
2/17/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
2/24/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
3/3/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	King Features Syndicate
3/10/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
3/17/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
3/24/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
3/31/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
4/7/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
4/14/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
4/21/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
4/28/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
5/5/29	Nora's Ark by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
5/12/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
5/19/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
5/26/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
6/2/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
6/9/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
6/16/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
6/23/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
6/30/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
7/7/29	Rocky Ranch by Don Warren (story illo)	Newspaper Feature Service
7/14/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service (writer uncredited)
7/21/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
7/28/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
8/4/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
8/11/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
8/18/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
8/25/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
9/1/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
9/8/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
9/15/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
9/22/29	Honeymoon Island	Newspaper Feature Service
9/29/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service (writer uncredited)
10/6/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
10/13/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
10/20/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
10/27/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
11/3/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
11/10/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
11/17/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
11/24/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
12/1/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
12/8/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service
12/15/29	Pancho Rancho	Newspaper Feature Service

I'm calling this the end of Dan Smith's reign as a one-man magazine cover-producing machine. I know of one additional series he did in 1930, but after Pancho Rancho ends, he's definitely not even a regular contributor anymore.So that's it for this post, and yet we're really just getting started on the Hearst magazine covers.

Tomorrow we hit an exciting stretch, so see you then!

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