My wife found a New York Post Home News Magazine section of the newspaper from 1949 in her father's house which appears to have been saved because of a story about an Ed Thomas who lived in East Orange and was a friend of the family. Mr. Thomas was the superintendant of Lackawana Railroad Police.
As I turned the pages I noticed the funny pages had only four cartoons that I recognized, Superman, Pogo, Mary Worth, and Nancy. Does anyone recall these others? -
Silly Milly
Dixie Dugan
Dotty Dripple
Abbie An' Slats
Mark Trail
Bruce Gentry
Debbie Dean
Then of course there was the silly stuff...Pres. Truman reverses economic stand; British send troops to defend dock strike; Henry Julian Wadleigh tries to explain his part in the Alger Hiss trial; Soviet Seizes Moscow's Catholic Parish (try appealing that one!).
Yes, Mark Trail was the outdoor guy with the pipe. I think that one survived into the 1960s. I vaguely remember the name Abbie and Slats, but can't recall anything else about the strip.
And they were not the "good old days." The "good old days" are now. :-)
Brain synapses going into short-circuit/overload here...
Dixie Dugan was kind of a "Brenda Starr" thing, career gal gets caught up in intrigue of all kinds. She was known for her pageboy hairstyle, popular at the time in the 1940s-1950s.
Dottie Dripple was sort of a take-off on Blondie and Dagwood. Cartoon sitcom.
I was travelling not long ago and saw Mark Trail in the comics. It could have been FL, might have been OH. He, along with Steve Canyon and Mike Roper had those stories that went on and on and on. Mike had a sidekick whose name I forget but he was always smoking. Imagine cartoon characters smoking nowadays! Oh, the humanity!
Abby an' Slats I remember seeing but can't remember the premise.
Mary Worth, the quintessential busybody - probably has a story line going that began in 1947.
I really miss Nancy. Aunt Fritzi was a hottimus maximus!
