Geddup And Go

Thursday Story Strip Day.

I showed a set of dailies of the forgotten western strip Gene Autry in an earlier post. Here is a run of Sundays. Not as well drawn as Hopalong Cassidy and not as famous as The Lone Ranger, but it certainly shows how excellent even the downright middle of the road newspaper strip artists were in the fifties.

Hi-oh Champion!

Thursday Story Strip Day.

In the fifties an sixties westerns were all the rage. Every B cowboy movie ever made, was used on tv for saturday morning and early evening programming. Of those, probably ever one made it into a comic book or newspaper series and usually both. I thought one of the ones missing was Gene Autry, until I ran into tihs rarity from 1954/55. Not a full story, but enough to appreciate it for what it was.

Thos post was delayed by bloody blogger being on the blink. But I guess a few months from now that won't mean a thing.