FRIDAY FOSTER: The Beautiful People--Conclusion

You can read the previous parts of this story, and background on Friday Foster HERE!

With pardonable pride, we present the conclusion of the never-reprinted original story "The Beautiful People" from the one-and-only issue of the comic book version of the Friday Foster newspaper comic strip.
BTW, Ferdy Trask is a paparazzi, stalking Jenny Trevor, a Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis/Grace Kelly-type socialite with two kids from her marriage to a deceased politician.

Thus ended the comic book career of Friday Foster.

It was also the final title published by Dell Comics.

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FRIDAY FOSTER: The Beautiful People--Part 2

You can read the previous part of this story HERE!

With pardonable pride, we present Part 2 of the never-reprinted original story "The Beautiful People" from the one-and-only issue of the comic book version of the Friday Foster newspaper comic strip.
Published in 1972, story is by Joe Gill, art is by Jack Sparling, deliberately imitating the style of Friday's newspaper strip artist Jorge Longaron.

And on that righteous note, we'll say...Tune In Tomorrow for the exciting conclusion!

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FRIDAY FOSTER: The Beautiful People--Part 1

We're going to end Black History Month, as we began it, with Friday Foster!
With pardonable pride, we present the never-reprinted original story "The Beautiful People" from the one-and-only issue of her own comic book.
Published in 1973, story is by Joe Gill, art is by Jack Sparling, deliberately imitating the style of Friday's newspaper strip artist Jorge Longaron.

Oh, YES, Friday!

Tune in Tomorrow to see how it goes!

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Friday Foster

On January 18, 1970, Friday Foster became the FIRST mainstream syndicated comic strip to star a Black woman as the title character.
(Jackie Ormes' legendary Torchy Brown was, unfortunately, limited to black-owned newspapers which had relatively-limited circulation.)
It was also the FIRST mainstream comic strip to star a Black title character, male OR female!
(The humor strip Quincy by Ted Shearer debuted later in 1970!)

Prolific writer Jim Lawrence was no stranger to adventure strips, having previously written Captain Easy and Joe Palooka.
After his stint on Friday, he scripted a revived Buck Rogers comic strip based on the 1980 tv series!
And, he penned a 1970s paperback novel series, Dark Angel, about a Black female private eye!
Artist Jorge Longaron had done a number of comic strips in Europe, but was unknown in America. Friday was his Stateside strip debut.

The series was a combination of adventure, soap-opera, and social commentary, about former fashion model-turned-photographer's assistant (and later professional photographer) Friday Foster.
Supporting characters included photographer Shawn North (her boss and later business partner) and millionare playboy/romantic interest Blake Tarr.

The strip lasted until late 1974, with some of the final sequences illustrated by DC Comics legend Dick Giordano and a then up-and-comer named Howard Chaykin (American Flagg, The Shadow)!

Besides the strip, there was a one-shot comic book in 1972, and a feature film in 1975 (a year after the strip was canceled) starring action-movie goddess Pam Grier as Friday, Thalmus Rasulala as Blake Tarr, Yaphet Kotto as Detective Colt Hawkins, plus Eartha Kitt, Jim Backus, Godfrey Cambridge, and in one of his earliest roles, Carl Weathers, as an unnamed assassin!
While there was a soundtrack album, curiously, I've never seen a novelization (and, in the '70s, they did novelizations of movies that weren't even released in the US, just shown overseas)!

If you're looking for a cool gift for the Black History aficionado or grrrl hero fan in your life, you can't go wrong with a Friday Foster mug, bag, shirt or other goodie from Atomic Kommie Comics™!

Note: only the comics graphic at top is available on products from us. The poster isn't.