The Guardian Angel
But Hop, who mostly stayed in the back pages and appeared on a mere three covers (and had to share the first of them with three other series, only one of which, Scribbly, was the least bit memorable), is the only All-American character adapted into ...
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MLJ (Archie) Comics
Justice, a knock-off of DC's Spectre, on the cover), Top-Notch Comics (where The Wizard and The Black Hood shared the cover), Pep Comics (with The Shield, the first of the patriotic-style super guys) and Zip Comics (featuring Steel ...
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The Great Gusto
And yet, the strip he was originally the star of ran for decades — in fact, King Features Syndicate distributed all the way into the 21st century, under the title Steve Roper & Mike Nomad. … from newspaper editors ...
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The Iron Skull
That would be Bozo, an early star at Quality Comics ( Blackhawk, Torchy ), who made his debut in September of 1939 ... The Iron Skull was a full automaton, able to think and act under his own direction, whereas Bozo was merely a device used by his ...
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Prince Valiant
Hal Foster, the creator of comics' most famous 5th-century adventurer, got his start in comics doing the Tarzan Sunday page ... King Features began distributing his Sunday-only Prince Valiant on February 13, 1937, and still does so ...
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Ka-Zar
Ka-Zar appeared in only two more pulps, dated January and June, 1937, then was forgotten until 1939, when Goodman started scouting up material for his new anthology comic book, Marvel Mystery Comics. The character was pulled from oblivion to help ...
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Space Detective
From Marvel Comics' Masked Raider ( no relation ), who first appeared in 1939, to DC's El Diablo (1972), comic books abound with western heroes sporting secret identities ... Aside from Space Ranger, few space heroes with secret identities have ...
http://www.toonopedia.com/spdetec.htm
Somebody's Stenog
From Tillie the Toiler to Cathy, the theme of working women has been a common one in the comics ... In fact, women on the job have been part of the comics scene about as long as they've been a highly visible part of society as a ...
http://www.toonopedia.com/stenog.htm
George and Junior
John Steinbeck's 1937 novel, Of Mice & Men, and the 1939 movie made from it, had a big effect on American culture — not just because the powerful and memorable story moved its readers and viewers so strongly, but also because its two ...
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John Law
For a guy who goes back to 1948, John Law sure did take his time about appearing before the public — especially considering he had as strong a cartoonist as Will Eisner ( Blackhawk, Sheena ) behind him. Originally intended for publication ...
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The Blue Beetle (1966)
The recent Blue Beetle is Ted Kord, an electronics genius and millionaire industrialist along the lines of Marvel Comics' Iron Man — a guy able to design all kinds of nifty techno-gadgets that a superhero would find handy, who also has ...
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The Firefly
MLJ's Top-Notch Comics, for example, which started with The Wizard as its star, had no less than four of them by its 8th issue — and that was before its biggest star, The Black Hood, made the scene ... He concluded that the ability of some ...
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Bobby Thatcher
He was far from the first ( Bobby the Boy Scout beat him out by more than a decade and a half, tho that was an anomaly), nor even the first successful, syndicated one (not with Wash Tubbs riding high, even if it did take a humorous approach) ... ...
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Egghead
Since Egghead and his alleged brother never appeared in the same cartoon, and since Elmer's name was used almost exclusively in promotion, merchandising and production (it appeared on the screen only once, on the side of a vehicle in A Feud There Was, ...
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Count Screwloose of Tooloose
Only two of his many creations for the papers were ever animated — the very early Phool Phan Phables, back in the silent era and virtually unheard-of today; and this one — Count Screwloose of Tooloose ... 17, 1929, as the star of a ...
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