Gallery: Assorted Newspaper Comics - 1950s & 60s
Sunday Comics II
by Wayne Boring -- 1958
Superman was a daily newspaper comic strip which began on January 16, 1939, and a separate Sunday strip was added on November 5, 1939. These strips ran continuously until May 1966. In 1941, the McClure Syndicate had placed the strip in hundreds of newspapers. At its peak, the strip, featuring Superman, was in over 300 daily newspapers and 90 Sunday papers, with a readership of over 20 million.
Featured Comics:
- Superman - by Wayne Boring -- 1958
- Jane Arden - by Walt Graham and Jim Seed -- 1958
- Captain and the Kids · Kitty Higgins - by R. Dirks · Ferd Johnson -- 1958
- Little Orphan Annie · Moon Mullins - by Harold Gray · Ferd Johnson -- 1958
- Buz Sawyer · Juliet Jones - by Roy Crane · Stan Drake -- 1965
- Lone Ranger · Flash Gordon · Snuffy Smith - by Charles Flanders and Paul S. Newman · Mac Raboy · Fred Lasswell -- 1965
- Moose · Big Ben Bolt · Little Orphan Annie - by Bob Weber · John Cullen Murphy · Harold Gray -- 1965
- Li'l Abner - by Al Capp -- 1967
- Dick Tracy - by Chester Gould -- 1967
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