A full classics update is up for the 7th, and even a bonus strip this time around… and right on time to boot!
Back in late 1930, The Chicago Tribune/New York Daily News Comic Syndicate decided that every Sunday strip should have a “topper”. Carl Ed’s “Harold Teen” had been using “Simp O’Dell” for awhile, and we now know that Frank King came up with “That Phoney Nickel” for “Gasoline Alley”.
Sidney Smith brought back his old character “Old Doc Yak” to serve with “The Gumps”… and Harold Gray of “Little Orphan Annie” invented a gimmick strip where he looked at life through a series of animals, and sometimes inanimate objects, such as a provided example of “The Private Life of a Rolling Stone”. No, it’s not about Keith Richards.
As for the regular strips, Skeezix and Corky go spelunking in the snow while Walt shovels the sidewalks, and the phoney nickel moves from a phoney beggar, to a sneaky brat, to a big bully.
Rick and the regular gang have a poker night, and Deuces is up to his usual tricks. We answer the puzzling question: When does three of a kind beat four of a kind?
Brenda takes Maryjane’s advice and dives into the Yellow Pages to find herself a psychologist, presumably the one with the best ad in the book. Lazy tries to explain her evil plot with telling a half-truthful story to The Flash, and doesn’t really get there – at least if you believe the narrator.
Slim and Clovia leave as City Hall closes for the day, and still no marriage license. Which gives the kids an evening to try and figure out how they never made it to the window all day.
Don’t go toward the light Uncle Walt!
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A full classics update is up for the 7th, and even a bonus strip this time around… and right on time to boot!
Back in late 1930, The Chicago Tribune/New York Daily News Comic Syndicate decided that every Sunday strip should have a “topper”. Carl Ed’s “Harold Teen” had been using “Simp O’Dell” for awhile, and we now know that Frank King came up with “That Phoney Nickel” for “Gasoline Alley”.
Sidney Smith brought back his old character “Old Doc Yak” to serve with “The Gumps”… and Harold Gray of “Little Orphan Annie” invented a gimmick strip where he looked at life through a series of animals, and sometimes inanimate objects, such as a provided example of “The Private Life of a Rolling Stone”. No, it’s not about Keith Richards.
As for the regular strips, Skeezix and Corky go spelunking in the snow while Walt shovels the sidewalks, and the phoney nickel moves from a phoney beggar, to a sneaky brat, to a big bully.
Rick and the regular gang have a poker night, and Deuces is up to his usual tricks. We answer the puzzling question: When does three of a kind beat four of a kind?
Brenda takes Maryjane’s advice and dives into the Yellow Pages to find herself a psychologist, presumably the one with the best ad in the book. Lazy tries to explain her evil plot with telling a half-truthful story to The Flash, and doesn’t really get there – at least if you believe the narrator.
Slim and Clovia leave as City Hall closes for the day, and still no marriage license. Which gives the kids an evening to try and figure out how they never made it to the window all day.