Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson

As noted in the previous post, it's frustrating. But every once in a while, there are hints. For example, on the back of the second of the Gun Law strips is an advertisement for an auction to be held April 28, 1964 -- so my guess is that the story begins at some point in April 1964.

In the case of the Flook strips I'm about to post, the one that begins with Rufus saying, "Come out," is dated August 5, 1955. But that's because someone wrote the date at the top of the strip -- not because there's printed indication on the strip or its other side.

9/12/2008 10:38:20 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

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9/19/2008 4:50:28 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

This depends a lot on how they are numbered- some Brit strips just start with strip 1 and run forever- with these if you know the start fate you can estimate the date by jsut dividing it by 312 (the approxiamte number of days other than sunday i na week) It gets tricky when they start using alphabet codes for stories and then the numbers or if they restart the numbering system mid stream!
Definitely a headache and too bad as there are a lot of really great british strips to collect and many that deserve more expanded reprints in a book format

george Hagenauer |yellowkdAT NOSPAMterracom dot net

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