Comic Strip Nostalgia

HiDesertHal

HiDesertHal

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How many of you remember these comic strips that I recall from the 1940's?

The Katzenjammer Kids

Dick Tracy

Smilin' Jack

Terry and the Pirates

Mutt & Jeff

Nancy & Sluggo

Blondie & Dagwood

I remember many more, but I don't want to hog the thread, so let's see your old favorites!

Cheers,
HDH
 

Must be telepathy, Hal. I was just thinking this morning about the Katzenjammer Kids. When I was little before I learned to read, I thought it was the "cats and jammie kids"

Remember Priscilla's Pop? Priscilla always wanted a horse, and her pop got mashed potato sandwiches in his lunchbox. She had a friend named Jenny Lu whose bangs stuck straight out, then bent down.

I Go Pogo! was Pogo's campaign slogan during Eisenhower's run. Remember "spring has sprung, the grass is riz; I wonder where the flowers is"?
 
There was one I liked called Little Lulu. Lulu liked to go pick beebleberries -- my sis and I thought the word beebleberry was hysterically funny. To this day, my sister and I sometimes call raspberries beebleberries, And any berry pie is beebleberry pie.

Funny how some things stick with you . . . .
 
Hey Butterfly,

Smilin' Jack was a swashbuckling private aircraft pilot, who had as many adventures with women on the ground as he had in the skies as a test pliot, a mercenary flier, and a daredevil flier. He was always shown at airports and air shows and air meets.

He had a sidekick called "Downwind" who was so handsome that he drove women wild with passion, yet his face never appeared in the strip, only his head drawn from a 3/4 rear view.

Another character was FatStuff, an aircraft mechanic that was always shown with a button popping off his shirt, and a nearby chicken swallowing the button as it flew off.

Check out Smilin' Jack on online photos of the comic strip.

Hal
 
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Right On, Falcon!

The Katzenjammer bunch featured Hans und Fritz, Mama, the Captain, und der Inspektor.

During the War the title was changed to "The Captain and the Kids", to downplay the German influence.

Yes, I also remember prizefighter Joe Palooka and his manager Knobby Walsh.

Hal
 
I always got a kick out of Rube Goldberg and his inventions

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Also Blondie, Gasoline Alley and Family Circle.
 
I remember most of those mentioned here. I recall the name "Tillie The Toiler" but not the strip itself. My favorite, of course, was Little Iodine and it's my fondest hope that someday my child will be hired to write it for a TV animation program. Wait! Was Little Iodine only in comics and didn't have a strip in the paper? Anyone remember?
 
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