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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
Posted by maggie

The science-fiction strip ran in England's Daily Express from Feb. 15, 1955, to April 18, 1974. In August, Titan Books released the collection Jeff Hawke: Overlord (ISBN 1845765982). George Hagenauer has commented on how to solve dating problems with British strips, so I'll note that in this specific era, strip #H-1723 was in the paper dated Oct. 9, 1959. Those with calendar programs can work out when these specific strips were published. (At this point, Jordan's friend William Patterson was scripting the feature and possibly helping to plot the tales, as well.)



9/23/2008 6:10:44 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #  Comments [1]
9/23/2008 9:55:46 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
This reminds me of the kinds of British strips that the Street
Enterprise boys (Jerry Sinkovec and Mike Tiefenbacher) were running in their Menomonee Falls Gazette reprint paper. Mostly
fantastic stuff that we weren't seeing the likes of in our local
newspapers!
I guess adventure strips stayed stronger in Great Britain while
they were slowly dying out in America. Our few survivors today
are sadly shrunken remnants of their former greatness, mostly
kept alive by their syndicates in case merchandizing dollars can
be made from them still...Hollywood calling?
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