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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 22, 2020 14:56:29 GMT -5
Two of my favorite newspaper strips that disappeared were Tumbleweeds and Broom Hilda. I had some of their paperbacks, also Dennis the Menace (U.S.) in the same format. Oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me about Broom Hilda and Dennis the Menace! I especially can't believe I forgot about Dennis the Menace. I'm not sure if I had any paperback collections of the comic strip, but I definitely had more than a few Dennis the Menace comic books, including a digest size comic I used to read once a year.
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Post by berkley on Sept 23, 2020 1:08:47 GMT -5
Peanuts was head and shoulders above everything else for me as a kid but I liked a lot of other strips too. Johnny Hart's BC and Wizard of Id were favourites. Also Andy Capp.
Of the story strips I remember reading Captain Easy and enjoying it in a mild way. I liked Joe Palooka, a sign of my attraction to boxing at a young age. I think out local paper carried Secret Agent Corrigan only for a few years but that was good while it lasted, though I was probably too young to appreciate the Williamson artwork at the time.
The superhero characters never worked that well for me as news-strips but seeing the Spider-Man samples posted above, I wonder if that was at least partly because of the small size - because reproduced in a larger format on the computer screen, these ones look pretty good. Then again, I'm not sure I saw the Romita strips back then- did he always do them? I thought it was Larry Leiber, the ones I remember reading back in the 70s or 80s.
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 23, 2020 6:38:52 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, I used to read Andy Capp and Motley's Crew, too.
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 23, 2020 23:02:34 GMT -5
As a kid, I read everything in the local dailies and the Sunday section. My father always had a local newspaper subscription, no matter where we lived. Yes, I even read the soap opera strips like Mary Worth and Apartment 3-G. However, I was totally addicted to Lee Falk's Phantom, Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, Snuffy Smith, and Tarzan (Russ Manning!). As I got older, I moved toward Bloom County, The Far Side, Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes.
I was always both intrigued and confused by Dondi.
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Post by MDG on Sept 24, 2020 8:49:29 GMT -5
One thing I've learned in the past 10 years or so is how many comic strips there have been that have just fallen down the memory hole and will probably never be collected. My local paper growing up only had one serial strip, The Jackson Twins. For years I could find nothing about it and I don't expect to see a book any time soon.
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 24, 2020 9:20:34 GMT -5
I think out local paper carried Secret Agent Corrigan only for a few years but that was good while it lasted, though I was probably too young to appreciate the Williamson artwork at the time. Always worth a revisit for Williamson's lovely art and the stories. Romita and Lee started the strip in January of 1977, with Romita's run ending in 1980, then Larry Leiber stepped in, but he was soon replaced by Fred Kida (1981-1986). The origin of the strip--as Romita recalls it--was Lee wanting to launch a daily strip as early as 1970, and with Romita, produced two weeks' worth of strips for the proposal, as seen in the following samples--
--but it failed to be picked up. Lee would revisit the idea again in 1976, agreeing to write the strip, but Romita--by that time Art Director at Marvel--was not so enthusiastic about taking on such a job: Romita: "I wanted to keep my job. I was a 9 to 5 art director. I was also doing other things - covers, and designing toys and things like that. I didn't want to give up my job because I thought of the syndicate thing as a long shot, and with not much duration and expectation."After coming around, Romita initially only wanted to illustrate the dailies, or just the Sunday strip, but ended up taking on all seven days of the strip.
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