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   LudwigVonDrake said, 10 months ago

   Great artwork.

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   JDG said, 10 months ago

   good toon!

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   Michael McMillan said, 10 months ago

   Hey! That looks like my house! Where’d he hide that camera???

   (I’m not joking, relatives have moved in and set up camp, we may have to move. This hits really close to home for me.)

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   Newenglandah said, 10 months ago

   I recognize Mandrake the Magician, Orphan Annie, Popeye and Wimpy, and Lil Abner. Who are the others? We seem to be missing Smitty, Smokey Stover, Smiling Jack, and a number of others.

   Can anyone identify the two near the left in the strange costumes?

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   CaptainColorado said, 10 months ago

   “Arf” indeed!

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   stringmusicianer said, 10 months ago

   Wonder if Barney is aware of his 21st century namesake.

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   John Rieth said, 10 months ago

   Newenglandah: Buck Rogers or maybe Flash Gordon?

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   miguel491 said, 10 months ago

   I love it!

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   whmIII said, 10 months ago

   Good stuff!

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    axe-grinder said, 10 months ago

    Buck Rogers and Wilma are near Mandrake. That might be Steve Canyon at leftmost bottom. Secret Agent X-9 between Mandrake and Annie, Jungle Jim behind Annie… Flash and Dale getting cozy. Wash Tubbs, Don Winslow…

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    axe-grinder said, 10 months ago

    Don’t know the white-haired guy behind Canyon… by the way, there’s a new wikipedia.org entry for “Don Winslow of the Navy (comics)” that tells how that character started out as a recruiting tool for the US Navy– very interesting reading.

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    pschearer said, 10 months ago

    Wow, Axe-Grinder, I’m impressed!

    I don’t know the white-haired guy at all. Beneath him is Terry of Pirates fame (altho he naturally resembles Steve Canyon, both by Milton Caniff). I knew Don Winslow only from the movie serials “D.W. of the Navy” and “D.W. of the Coast Guard”. Likewise Jungle Jim. (Early ’50s TV was filled with old movie serials; note my avatar.) Never knew Wash Tubbs. The bird Rudy in the title panel: he wasn’t from Smilin’ Jack, was he? But I was always ticked off by getting the Little King story wrong in an I.Q. test; I liked my version better.

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    axe-grinder said, 10 months ago

    pschearer,
    I would say if that’s Terry, it’s the later George Wunder version– which is what I grew up on, so why didn’t I think of that?! I forgot Mary Worth there behind Tarzan. MW’s Ken Ernst was a wonderful artist for glamorous women… again wikipedia has a nice little article about him, and links to some cool photos of him sketching co-eds in 1947.

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    barticle35 said, 10 months ago

    Funny, how most of these guys never seem to age, unlike the folks down at Gasoline Alley. When I was a kid I always wanted to learn how to gesture hypnotically, like Mandrake.

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    ctb said, 10 months ago

    I learned to read from Prince Valiant comics. Comics have been the highlight of my day for about 70 years and counting.

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    Dypak said, 10 months ago

    It looks like MaxStarmanJones gave up too quickly. A nice Walt comic, with alot of old friends. Very cool. Maybe Walt can make an annual trip to the old comics home.

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    axe-grinder said, 10 months ago

    Wait a minute– is the white-haired guy Brick Bradford? I read that every day. Could be him. Will Jim ever tell us for sure?

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    axe-grinder said, 10 months ago

    Jim says ‘Red Barry’– though shouldn’t his hair be red? I don’t know, that’s one I never read!

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    MaxStarmanJones said, 10 months ago

    Dypak:

    I was late getting online today, but you are right! I am elated by this comic today. It’s GA at its classical best. I only wonder what “selling the house” means. Are we about to see Walt move into the “old comics home?”

    Thanks to Mr. Scancarelli for a job WELL DONE!

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    Dypak said, 10 months ago

    Now that is a true comics fan!

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    436rge said, 10 months ago

    I just love it when Jim invites a whole gang of comic strip characters. I always clipped and saved those moments, now I print.

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    Jeffrey Lindenblatt said, 10 months ago

    Well here the break down
    90: Barney Google
    85: Wash Tubbs & Annie
    80: Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Popeye
    75: Terry & The Pirates, Red Barry, Mandrake the Magician, Secret Agent X-9, Jungle Jim, Flash Gordon, Don Winslow & L’ll Abner, Snuffy Smith, Mary Worth, Little King

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    Wayne said, 10 months ago

    Wasn’t Wash Tubbs Captain Easys sidekick??

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    Wayne said, 10 months ago

    I’m still reading most of these “guys and gals” and have for many delightful years!!

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    cucuchi said, 9 months ago

    Ensemble cast.

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    MommaMadeMe said, 8 months ago

    Where’s Alley Oop!?!?!?