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A new Sunday story in The Phantom means a new title panel by Sunday artist Jeff Weigel.


A big, wonderful Prince Valiant panel by Thomas Yeates as Val and company begin their own new adventure.

Current Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland has some fun with the present status of the comic strip of new Sundays and daily reruns as he has Bud Sagendorf‘s Popeye joins Randy’s Popeye in the top (drop) tier of today’s half page.

Alright! This is what we need, a crossover featuring characters from Rex Morgan, M.D. and Judge Parker specifically Sam Driver. (Did Ms. Tree have an attorney as a regularly appearing cast member?)

Or, just maybe, we will see a lawyer re-introduced into King comics that has been absent a very long time.


Speaking of reintroducing long gone characters and places … Dan Schkade and today’s Flash Gordon.



As long as we’re looking into the past…
Back in the 1990s [Jim Keefe] was the staff colorist in the Comic Art Department at King Features Syndicate.
[Jim] colored a number of their strips – Blondie, Hagar, Popeye, etcetera – but the Spider-Man comic strip was usually colored by someone up at Marvel. [Jim] would generally fill in only if it was a reprint or they were pressed for time.
One of the strips [Jim] ended up coloring was the Sunday page for September, 27, 1992. Here’s the pencils by Ron Frenz.
Cartoonist Jim Keefe recalls his job coloring comic strips for King Features – specifically The Amazing Spider-Man.

Gaylord convinces Broom-Hilda that her ambition to be President may not fit her capabilities, unlike some.


Lalo Alcaraz presents a portrait of the thoroughly modern newspaper publisher in today’s La Cucaracha.
The other week I couldn’t resist a tribute to The Great Stone Face; this week’s nice mess is The Boys.

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