Posted on 03/21/2014 8:24:30 PM PDT by MNDude
Yeah, Boondocks was nasty. Never did see what the point/relevance of the title was.
Finally, that has bugged me for years, so it was Buzz Sawyer and 1966.
Thanks for finding that.
No problemo, I had to check it out myself just to be sure.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
New strips? I like Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan
Also Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho
"Terry and the Pirates" started, if my memory serves, in the mid-late 1930s. The locale in WWII was often Burma with notable characters such as Madam Deal, a true original (aka the "Dragon Lady") - evil but exotic.
The artwork was superlative - best sketches of era warplenes around (e.g., B-25 with garden-house nose, and so forth).
This is way the "Steve Canyon" began, again IIRC.
Note that helps you.
The first public mention of the SEALs wasn’t the Steve Canyon comic strip as I had remembered, it was “Buz Sawyer” in 1966.
Here is an article from Time Magazine-1968
World: Unconventional Commandos
Friday, Jan. 12, 1968
Readers of Cartoonist Roy Crane’s comic strip “Buz Sawyer” were introduced back in 1966 to an outfit called the U.S. Navy Seals (for Sea, Air and Land), an elite bunch of commandos with which Buz performed deeds of derring-do in Viet Nam. It may have seemed like rousing fantasy to readers, but the fact was that just such an outfit was operating in Viet Nam—where its presence was one of the most closely kept secrets of the war.* Only now, in fact, when the Communists themselves have learned of the Seals’ presence the hard way, has the Navy begun to dis close some of their real adventures and reveal something about how they operate.
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,837651,00.html
See post 146 about the first or one of the first public mention of the SEALs, and it was in a comic strip.
Calvin and Hobbes. Hands down the best comic strip in the universe, ever. Nothing has come close.
I just realized I replied to an undead thread,
Oops.
Not dead, it just took a break evidently.
A correction needed to be made.
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