What were your favorite comic strips as a kid?

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I liked:

Brenda Starr
Rex Morgan MD
Mary Worth
Apartment 3G

There were mini soap operas. I used to get SO wrapped up in the storylines! :) I remember looking forward to the Sunday paper because it had a longer episode and it was in color.
 

Beetle Baily
Blondie
Peanuts
Nancy :)))
Henry
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Apart from peanuts I've never heard of any of those...sorry folks..but when I was a kid growing up in Scotland we had comic strips which were written in the supposed vernacular of the thick Scottish brogue Oor Wullie..The Broons... ( I loved those) they were printed in the newspapers but every year there were annuals to be had for Christmas for us kids. Today they are still printed and still those annuals are available.. I remember my mum who was born in '34 saying they were around when SHE was a child too.. :D
 
I loved my Archies and Peanuts of course, Caspar the friendly ghost, Superman, When I was much younger there was a strip called Mandrake the Magician, which is now very obscure.
 
Holly, we once rented a cottage next to Loch Ness, and our children were enchanted with the many Oor Wullie annuals left in the cottage, they kept them entertained on rainy days.
 
The ones I mentioned…….Rex Morgan MD was a handsome doctor and June Gale was his office manager/nurse (they later married)………Mary Worth was a kind older woman who observed and advised her neighbors and helped them with their problems (busybody) and frowned a lot………and those 3 girls in Apartment 3G lived in Manhattan and had very exciting lives. Tommie was a redhead, LuAnn was blonde, and Margo was a brunette. Brenda Starr was a reporter with a luscious head of red hair.
 
I remember "Henry", but barely. I think he was mute, and drawn without a mouth.

Nancy & Sluggo, so cute. :)

I really admire the talented artists of all the strips......some are still running.
 
Josiah, I can't really remember Nancy's personality so I can't say. You mean she and Sluggo made it on a stamp?!

And I probably liked Henry because I was a very slow reader. Still am. :( Pogo was a challenge.
 
Old tidbits about the Blondie comic strip here.


For close to 90 years, Chic Young’s comic strip Blondie has been a constant in newspapers around the world, reaching an estimated 280 million readers in 55 countries. Despite its title, most readers are probably more familiar with Blondie’s husband, the sandwich-consuming Dagwood.

Check out some facts about the comic’s origins, its feature film franchise, and a very unfortunate incident involving a dirty word that rocked Blondie's readership to its core.

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We liked all the aforementioned comic strips .. does anyone else remember Katy Keene? My sister used to draw Katy Keene fashions which were really good.

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Katy Keene, the Pin Up Queen! We'd draw fashions for her all day sometimes. Remember the rival Gloria?

These were funny books or comic books. Comic strips, I also like Brenda Starr, but didn't really get what was going on. I did love Rick O'Shay and his buddy Hipshot.
 
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