The Era -- Day By Day

[Harp]

My suspicion regarding the England jewel thefts coalesce American GI involve.
Cat burglary with some serious meow. Guys appear to have left discernible automotive
trace however and now New York detectives are brought in. Fencing all that ice Stateside
won't be easy. Barracks inspections up the yin yang with lotsa lettuce spread latrine rumors.

I need remark Mary Worth penciling excellent pneumatic protagonist depiction.

Terry drags flight.

 

[Farace]

It looks like we got a repeat of the previous day’s page one from the Eagle.

I’m amused by some of the titles of comic that we don’t get to see, that appear at the bottom of the strips that we do see, and I suspect I should be grateful that things titled “Dottie Dripple” and “Steve Roper and Wahoo” are being filtered out.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Here's the correct page one, this time posted without a cat sticking her toches in my face.

We get the cream of the Eagle's comic section, which, with the loss of the B u n g l e s and Dan Dunn in recent years, is not quite what it once was. Dotty Dripple is basically a dime store version of "Blondie," without the incisive social commentary. Roper & Wahoo is an interesting case -- when we started this project six years ago, it was "Big Chief Wahoo," a comedy strip about an Indian chief who becomes an oil millionaire, and falls in with a W. C. Fields-like conman called Mortimer J. Gusto. But then Allen Saunders -- who also writes Mary Worth -- decided it needed to be more serious, so he had a Pat Ryan-like magazine photographer named Steve Roper parachute onto the reservation, and gradually he began to Barney Google the Chief out of his own strip. Wahoo is the namesake for the grinning logo of the Cleveland Indians, although that caricature does not particularly resemble him, but there is no truth to the rumor that he eventually ended up as an acquaintance of Mrs. Langford.

I miss the B u n g l e s every day -- the only piece of original comic strip art I own is an H. J. Tuthill daily that hangs in my stairwell -- and I also often wonder if Sparky Watts ever escaped from that submarine.

 

[Fading Fast]

The story of the great-grandmother and four children goes from awful to unbearably brutal at the end. JFC.