Make Room For Danny

Saturday Leftover Day.

 I have a pretty big collection of Dan Heilman's pre Judge Parker strip The American Adventure. Even more in a Caniff style than Parker, it retold stories about the lives of famous Americans. And it did so quite well, although it was better if you had the dailies as well. So, for some time I gathered dailies and added thm to whatever I had as Sundays. Sadly, I have not been able to do that this year, so these Sundays of Fulton's Follies has been waiting to be used. So I say: no longer. The are too wonderful to ignore. I hope that one day I (or someone else) will be able to do a complete book of them. 

By the way, I sold most of these tearsheets on Ebay, where you can find more of the strips I have been showing here the last ten years. If you visit and buy something, you will greatly help me - not to some money (I am starting them low and usually selling at starting price) but mostly, creating some room in my overcrowded office.

Hawaian Saturdays

Saturday Leftover Day.

I have been looking forward to posting this. I have been sold a lot of Sunday newspaper sections from the Honolulu Star Bulletin form the fifties. It wasn;t actually a Sunday, but came with the Saturday paper. In 1956 thye had a period where the Saturday daily strips were included in the Sunday section and I scanned all four of them. To make them readable here I cut them into four parts. Lots of interesting strips. Why they chose to have the title in the bottom of the first panel, when almost every strip leaves some room for that in te top, I don't understand.What are your favorites?

All Rise For The Judge

Thursday Comic Strip Day.

Collecting Dan Heilman's The american Adventure made me a fan of his style. Eventhough his second strip, Judge Parker, was a lot more sedate graphically, his simplified version of the Milt Caniff style works really well. Several people have remarked that he is nogt helped by the writing style of his partner on this strip. Sometimes it seems nothing happens for days. Still, it ran for many years. And in my opinion the Heilman years are the ones to look out for.