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Title: old comic strips
Post by: Bootlegger on August 06, 2017, 12:53:05 PM

  How many old comic strips do you remember?  Dick Tracy and such..
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Post by: FLOYD CARTER on August 06, 2017, 05:11:09 PM
Not so keen on printed comics.  Am watching the many TV episodes of Lone Ranger, 1948-1957
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Post by: Carl Cisneros on August 06, 2017, 05:20:18 PM
There was Dick Tracy, Lil Abner,  Beetle Bailey, Hagar, Pogo, Peanuts.

These are the ones that come to mind.

Carl
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Post by: john e. holliday on August 06, 2017, 05:22:39 PM
Add Allie Oop and Dagwood & Blondie plus Orphan Annie.
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Post by: Elwyn Aud on August 06, 2017, 05:35:36 PM
I think my all time favorite, while it hasn't been gone that long, was Bloom County. I remember seeing Pogo when I was very young, but I wasn't old enough to appreciate it.
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Post by: Avaiojet on August 06, 2017, 05:39:23 PM
I have a bunch of War comics. I'd have to dig them up for the publisher and years.

CB
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Post by: Norm Faith Jr. on August 06, 2017, 09:26:06 PM
Smiling Jack, Captain Midnight, Steve Canyon, Buck Rogers, Terry and the Pirates.
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Post by: Juan Valentin on August 06, 2017, 09:46:51 PM
         Flash Gordon by Mac Raboy,Tarzan, The Phantom and Brick Bradford and the time Top. I love the old comic strips and books.
                                                                                                                                                                            Juan
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Post by: RknRusty on August 06, 2017, 11:12:55 PM
I remember my least favorite ever was "Nancy." Maybe it was "Nancy and Sluggo." It was like a train wreck, I just had to read it every Sunday, on the slim chance that one day it would be funny. I think I remember twice in my life I actually laughed.
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Post by: Mike Scholtes on August 06, 2017, 11:51:19 PM
The Katzenjammer ("yowling of cats" auf Deutsche) Kids, Krazy Kat, Prince Valliant, Our Boarding House with Major Hoople, lots of others that give away my age.
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Post by: kenneth cook on August 07, 2017, 03:16:21 AM
         While not as old as some of the others mentioned, prehistoric B.C. was a favorite of mine . Grog was pretty funny. Ken
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Post by: Jim Carter on August 07, 2017, 07:46:43 AM
"Maggie and Jiggs"!  (I may have messed up the spelling but I think the strip name was "Bringing Up Father") Oh yea!  Beetle Bailey!!
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Post by: dale gleason on August 07, 2017, 10:16:58 AM
"Harumph!  Fap!  Egad!"      "Insect!!"  "Got in Himmel!"


dg
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Post by: Juan Valentin on August 07, 2017, 11:28:26 AM

             In the comic books I liked Sgt. Rock/Enemy Ace, The Blackhawks, Adam Strange,Metal Men and Tommy Tomorrow. there are many more.
                                                                                                                                                    Juan
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Post by: Fredvon4 on August 07, 2017, 01:16:13 PM
Child of the 50s...sibs came in the late 50 early 60s
Army dependents
oldest of 5
We all had different comic book tastes
We all spent every dime of our "allowance" on comic books in the base Exchange every month
By  the 1970s, we each had COMPLETE collections of every DC or Marvel story line, we followed, stuff like "Betty and Veronica", or Archie, or Iron man, Superman/Hulk

On one move, we were over weight...MOM pitched the entire collections.... DOOH!!!

Bloom County was interesting to me ---But eventually my conservative mind set saw the liberal bias and I came to not like it any more

Curious/Funny to me considering how MUCH really disgusting things appear NOW in TV advertising==== THAT SOME early cartoons are considered too violent or racial to air any more....

Marvin the Martian was a fav


Phred...but not "the Gook"

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Post by: Dwayne on August 07, 2017, 05:52:39 PM
Beetle Bailey
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Post by: Bill Morell on August 08, 2017, 10:28:07 AM
Sad Sack
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Post by: Tony Drago on August 08, 2017, 12:03:47 PM
Gasoline alley
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Post by: FLOYD CARTER on August 08, 2017, 11:25:41 PM
"Pogo" wasn't really a "comic".  Walt Kelly explored mostly human philosophy, as told by Pogo and his friends from the Okefenokee Swamp.  Adult reading for sure. 
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Post by: Howard Rush on August 09, 2017, 12:06:19 AM
Friday the 13th comes on a Sunday this month.
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Post by: Gerald Arana on August 09, 2017, 09:05:43 AM
Friday the 13th comes on a Sunday this month.


Huh!???

GA
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Post by: Trostle on August 09, 2017, 02:09:25 PM
I remember most of them, but my all time favorite was in MAN, Conrad Conrod. That guy was a hoot and most of us could relate to his antics in this hobby.

OK, if we get to the model magazines, Conrad was good and well thought out.  Then, there was Fixit Wright and Tailskid and Tailskid's sister - Bunny.

Keith
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Post by: Trostle on August 09, 2017, 02:23:42 PM
It was not a "comic strip", but a single frame cartoon.  I often wondered what kind of mind it took to come up with the stuff that appeared for several years (80 thru 94) in "The Far Side" by Gary Larson.

Keith
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Post by: Steve Helmick on August 09, 2017, 02:56:51 PM
Gary Larson is a hero of mine. He has an incredibly sick mind! Sad to see him retire, but I can understand the creative pressure being too much, long term. 

I think my favorite in the current Sunday comics is "Red & Rover". "Sherman's Lagoon" is another, sicker, more like Larson's stuff.  LL~ Steve
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Post by: john e. holliday on August 09, 2017, 03:05:40 PM
Well it has been years since I have seen the Sunday funnies let alone the daily comics of the local newspapers.   While I was still employed I use to scan the funnies in the break room. D>K
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Post by: Steve Scott on August 09, 2017, 05:48:13 PM
Gary Larson is a hero of mine. He has an incredibly sick mind! Sad to see him retire, but I can understand the creative pressure being too much, long term. 

I think my favorite in the current Sunday comics is "Red & Rover". "Sherman's Lagoon" is another, sicker, more like Larson's stuff.  LL~ Steve

Larson was a classmate of mine in HS.  Curtis HS in University Place, WA.  NBA superstar Isaiah Thomas was also an alum.
As a sophomore, I remember getting our butts handed to us by one guy from Tacoma's Mt. Tahoma HS during a non-league track meet.  Name was Bobby Moore.  Went on to play D1 football at Oregon (running back) then played many years in the NFL.  He changed his name when he went pro.  Muslim name.
Ahmad Rashad ring a bell?
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Post by: Will Hinton on August 09, 2017, 06:48:08 PM
Larson had some incredibly thought provoking stuff, I agree to it being too early for him to retire from the Far Side.
My current fav is Zits.  The guy must have a teenager in the house at all times to come up with all those great gags!  So true to life.  (And a great artist.)