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Topper Tuesday (“Spooky,” topper to “Smokey Stover”):
Pandemic Pastimes Kids’ Korner #604: Are the little ones bored and restless? Here’s a fun and diverting activity that will occupy their minds for a little while!
Vintage ad (Mort Drucker for Bell potato chips):
Pandemic Pastimes Kids’ Korner #591: Are the little ones bored and restless? Here’s a fun and diverting activity that will occupy their minds for a little while!
Today in Comics History: Superman's daily newspaper strip, which had run since January 1939, ran its first Sunday strip on November 4, 1939.
Today in Comics History: The Captain—the primary foil of Rudolph Dirks’ Katzenjammer Kids—first appeared in the strip on October 31, 1902, years after its 1897 debut. (Contrary to widespread perception, the Captain was not the Kids’ father but was a boarder in their household.)
Today in Comics History: Bill Mauldin, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist chronicler of WWII (and creator of the archetypal GIs Willie and Joe), was born 100 years ago, on October 29, 1921.
Today in Comics History: The Emmy-nominated "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"--the third Peanuts TV special--was first broadcast on October 27, 1966.
Who’s up for a little midcentury COMEDY GOLD?