Boob McNutt
In the late 1920s and early '30s, the topper's star was a likeable but shiftless young man named Bill, while in the main part of the page, Boob and Pearl carried on a zany, over-the-top soap opera — but the feature seemed to be running out of ...
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Nightwing
Like most of the early Batman stories, it was written by Bill Finger and drawn by Bob Kane. To anyone reading the first volume of DC Comics' Batman Archives, which reprinted those 11 stories along with more than a dozen of the earliest "Batman & ...
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Bulletman
The character was created by writer Bill Parker (who three months earlier had written the first adventures of Ibis the Invincible, Spy Smasher and more) and artist Jon Smalle (who did a number of features for Fawcett, Prize Comics and others) ... ...
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Torchy
Torchy, whose sexy adventures formed a large part of cartoonist Bill Ward's output for more than half a century, is among the latter ... A major comic book reference work says she first appeared in the back pages of Doll Man Quarterly #8 (Spring, ...
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Lady and the Tramp
Lady's neighbor dog, Jock, was Bill Thompson ( Droopy ); and her other neighbor, Trusty, was Bill Baucom, who also lacks other voice credits. Other dogs' voices included Alan Reed (Big Bill in Shinbone Alley ), Dal McKennon ( Archie ) and Thurl ...
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Captain Marvel (1940)
There, Billy met an aged wizard named Shazam, who gave Billy a special power: Whenever he said the wizard's name (which was an acronym for Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury), Billy would be transformed into the World's Mightiest ...
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Tales from the Crypt
Until 1947, when he unexpectedly inherited EC Comics, Bill Gaines wasn't very enthusiastic about comic books, despite the fact that his father had just about invented the format ... These features were done in the style of radio horror shows like ...
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The Ant and the Aardvark
Both voices were done by John Byner (Bill the Cat in TV animation starring Bloom County / Outland's Opus the Penguin ). The series was reasonably successful, with 16 additional entries released over the next couple of years, ending with From Bed ...
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The Catwoman
The Catwoman (then called simply "The Cat", as in "cat burglar") debuted in the first issue of Batman, dated Spring, 1940, in a story written and drawn by Batman's own creators, Bill Finger and Bob Kane. She wasn't a costumed criminal, like so many ...
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The Sub-Mariner
(Actually, Subbie made an "even firster" appearance in April of that year, in an apparently undistributed give-away comic that turned up in 1974 in a deceased publisher's estate, but since that didn't lead to an ongoing series, and since all eight of ...
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Captain Easy
This modular construction of Sunday comics has been the norm ever since, only one cartoonist, Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes , having succeeded in breaking free of it ... Turner retired in 1969, turning the operation over to his assistant, ...
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Outland
Within a few weeks, however, Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat, Bloom County's two most prominent animal characters, had joined Ronald Ann in The Outland ... As popular as Bloom County had been, Outland started off with a healthy subscriber ...
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Super Chicken
The voices of Super Chicken and Fred were done by Bill Scott and Paul Frees, respectively, both of whom were stalwarts of the Ward studio. ABC ran the show on Saturday morning for three years — but only one season of episodes was produced, and ...
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Gasoline Alley
Frank King (who was already doing a Nemo -inspired comic called Bobby Make-Believe for the Trib) used a small corner of The Rectangle for an ongoing cast of characters — Walt, Doc, Avery and Bill — who would get together for a single ...
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Fred Basset
In the 1970s, producer/director Bill Melendez (who made Charlie Brown a TV star) put him in a series of five-minute TV cartoons, but these appeared only in Britain. In addition, quite a few real-life basset hounds have been named Fred ...
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