Twin Earths S01 - S18 (3-1-53 to 12-7-58) Oskar Lebeck & Alden McWilliams

   

Twin Earths is an American science fiction comic strip written by

 Oskar Lebeck and drawn by Alden McWilliams that ran in Sunday

 and daily newspapers from 1952 until 196. 

The strip was distributed by United Feature Syndicate.

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Twin Earths S01  - S18 ((3-1-53 to 12-7-58)

S00 - Presentation Sundays

S01 - “The Hitchhiker”  (3-1-53 to 5-24-53)

S02 - “A Prince of Terra”  (5-31-53 to 7-26-53)

S03 - “Lost on the Earthmoon”  (8-2-53 to 8-30-53)

S04 - “The Ghost Rocket”  (9-6-53 to 11-29-53)

S05 - “The Forgotten Islands of Terra”  (12-6-53 to 4-4-54)

S06 - “Space Pygmies!”  (4-11-54 to 7-18-54)

S07 - “The Abandoned Cruise Ship”  (7-25-54 to 10-31-54)

S08 - “Island Refuge” (  11-7-54 to 2-13-55)

S09 - “Lost in Space”  (2-20-55 to 5-8-55)

S10 - “Colossus”  (5-15-55 to 2-12-56)

S11 - “The Moon of Colossus”  (2-19-56 to 7-15-56)

S12 - “In Earth's Past”  (7-22-56 to 3-24-57)

S13 - “Pirates of Miami”  (3-31-57 to 5-26-57)

S14 - “The Tyrant of Terra” ( 6-2-57 to 9-29-57)

S15 - “The Space Colonizer”  (10-6-57 to 1-5-58)

S16 - “The Moon Colony”  (1-12-58 to 3-16-58)

S17 - “Visit to Earth”  (3-23-58 to 7-13-58)

S18 - “The Kingdom of the Aquariats”  (7-20-58 to 12-7-58)

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Twin Earths D41 (1-23-61) - D57 (41-8-63) by Oskar Lebeck & Alden McWilliams

  

Twin Earths is an American science fiction comic strip written by

 Oskar Lebeck and drawn by Alden McWilliams that ran in Sunday

 and daily newspapers from 1952 until 196. 

The strip was distributed by United Feature Syndicate.

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Twin Earths D41 (1-23-61) - D57 (41-8-63) 

D41 - “The City of Oceana” (1-23-61 to 3-11-61)

D42 - “Marooned in Space” (3-13-61 to 4-24-61)

D43 - “Homecoming” (4-25-61 to 7-1-61)

D44 - “Moon Shot” (7-3-61 to 8-26-61)

D45 - “Return to Terra” (8-28-61 to 10-21-61)

D46 - “Black-Market Operation” (10-23-61 to 11-25-61)

D47 - “Mission to Mars” (11-27-61 to 1-19-62)

D48 - “The Lost Space Ship” (1-20-62 to 3-24-62)

D49 - “Blackmail” (3-26-62 to 5-12-62)

D50 - “The Reluctant Bride” (5-14-62 to 7-7-62)

D51 - “Billion Dollar Empire” (7-9-62 to 9-1-62)

D52 - “The Most Beautiful Girl on Terra” (9-3-62 to 10-15-62)

D53 - “Island of Abuc” (10-16-62 to 11-15-62)

D54 - “Kidnapped” (11-16-62 to 12-25-62)

D55 - “Maris Needs Men” (12-26-62 to 2-9-63)

D56 - “The Telvifone Thief” (2-11-63 to 4-6-63)

D57 - “Back in Time” (4-8-63 to 5-25-63)

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Twin Earths D21 (4-6-52) - D40 (1-21-61) by Oskar Lebeck & Alden McWilliams

 

Twin Earths is an American science fiction comic strip written by

 Oskar Lebeck and drawn by Alden McWilliams that ran in Sunday

 and daily newspapers from 1952 until 196. 

The strip was distributed by United Feature Syndicate.

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Twin Earths  D21 (4-6-52) - D40 (1-21-61)

D21 - “Raiders” (4-6-57 to 5-11-57)

D22 - “Nemesis” (5-13-57 to 8-8-57)

D23 - “Mystery Sphere” (8-9-57 to 11-2-57)

D24 - “Terranian Doubles” (11-4-57 to 1-29-58)

D25 - “The Outer Orbit Project” (1-30-58 to 4-25-58)

D26 - “Junior Satellite Project” (4-26-58 to 5-17-58)

D27 - “Mysterious Moon Domes” (5-19-58 to 7-12-58)

D28 - “The Secret of the Moon Colony” (7-14-58 to 9-13-58)

D29 - “The Great Brain Robberies” (9-15-58 to 11-8-58)

D30 - “The Venusian Vest” (11-10-58 to 3-14-59)

D31 - “Agents From Venus” (3-16-59 to 6-13-59)

D32 - “Intrigue on Venus” (6-15-59 to 9-19-59)

D33 - “Stolen Submarine Plans” (9-21-59 to 11-21-59)

D34 - “Space Ship Columbus” (11-23-59 to 2-18-60)

D35 - “Terra Invaded” (2-19-60 to 4-26-60)

D36 - “Terranian Island Stronghold” (4-27-60 to 6-23-60)

D37 - “Cristal's Castle” (6-24-60 to 8-22-60)

D38 - “The Poison Bomb Experiment” (8-23-60 to 10-15-60)

D39 - “Alien Spy” (10-17-60 to 12-3-60)

D40 - “The City of Tule” (12-5-60 to 1-21-61)

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Twin Earths D01 (6-16-52) - D20 (4-5-57) by Oskar Lebeck & Alden McWilliams

Twin Earths is an American science fiction comic strip written by

 Oskar Lebeck and drawn by Alden McWilliams that ran in Sunday

 and daily newspapers from 1952 until 196. 

The strip was distributed by United Feature Syndicate.

Publication history

The daily strip began on June 16, 1952, the Sunday on March 1, 1953.

The Sunday was drawn in a half page format, but it was available

 in smaller formats with dropped panels.

While semi-retired, Lebeck teamed with McWilliams (who had illustrated 

some of Lebeck'spast books and had done work for him at Dell Comics) 

to launch Twin Earths. 

It made use of the duplicate earth concept and tapped into the growing

 interest during the period in flying saucers.

 In 1957, Lebeck retired and McWilliams assumed scripting 

duties for the strip.
The Twin Earths Sunday strip ended December 28, 1958, 

while the daily strip continued until May 25, 1963.

Characters and story

The story told of another Earth (called Terra), in the same orbit as our planet but 

on the opposite side of the sun, whose scientifically advanced civilization visits us in flying saucers. Comics historian Stephen Donnelly noted:
The main characters of the daily strip, which began June 16, 1952, were Vana, a Terran spy living on Earth to keep tabs on our technology so the Terrans could be sure we and our war-like ways didn't pose a menace to them; and Garry Verth, an FBI agent to whom Vana revealed herself in the opening sequence. The first few months of story continuity involved a few exciting moments with Commie spies (out to get their hands on Terra's technology, of course), but mostly consisted of travelog-like views of Terran life—for example, the fact that in their liberated society, women, who constituted 92% of the population, ran things. The Sunday version began March 1 of the following year. Instead of tying in directly with the daily, or delivering a second track of story involving the same characters, this series explored a completely separate aspect of the "twin earths" scenario. It started with a young Texan named Punch sneaking aboard a Terran saucer just before it took off for home.

 After about three months, he was joined by Prince Torro, one of the relatively

 few Terran males, and the two boys continued as stars for the duration 

of the Sunday Twin Earths.

Reprints

Most of the strips have been reprinted in magazine format. 

In 1987, Dragon Lady Press published one issue of Science Fiction Classics featuring 

Twin Earths. Beginning in 1991, R. Susor Publications reprinted most of the daily

 and Sunday strips in three magazines, Twin Earths (eight issues),

 Twin Earths Sunday Pages (five issues), and Twin Earths Special Edition (one issue).

Authors: Oskar Lebeck (1952–1957) & Alden McWilliams (1957–1963)

Illustrator: Alden McWilliams

Current status/schedule Concluded daily & Sunday strip

Launch date June 16, 1952 & End date May 25, 1963

Syndicate: United Feature Syndicate 

Publishers: Dragon Lady Press, R. Susor Publications

Genre: Science Fiction

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Twin Earths D01 (6-16-52) - D20 (2-13-57 to 4-5-57) 

D01 - “Spy From Another Earth” (6-16-52 to 9-13-52)

D02 - “Agents of Terra” (9-15-52 to 1-17-53)

D03 - “Space Station From Terra” (1-19-53 to 5-16-53)

D04 - “Marco Polo of Space” (5-18-53 to 9-28-53)

D05 - “Prisoners of the Secret Police” (9-29-53 to 12-7-53)

D06 - “Aquarius” (12-8-53 to 3-22-54)

D07 - “Invasion of the Space Pygmies” (3-23-54 to 5-22-54)

D08 - “Twin Earths Solidarity” (5-24-54 to 8-14-54)

D09 - “The Syndicate” (8-16-54 to 11-4-54)

D10 - “The Mysterious Missiles” (11-5-54 to 12-14-54)

D11 - “Marooned In Space” (12-15-54 to 1-29-55)

D12 - “Invisible Visitor From Space” (1-31-55 to 5-21-55)

D13 - “Stolen Rocket Plans” (5-23-55 to 8-22-55)

D14 - “Moonlet Station” (8-23-55 to 11-2-55)

D15 - “Omnimach” (11-3-55 to 2-4-56)

D16 - “Prehistoric Planet” (2-6-56 to 6-18-56)

D17 - “A Glimpse of the Future” (6-19-56 to 9-1-56)

D18 - “The Strange Case of ‘Birdy’ Murphy” (9-3-56 to 10-29-56)

D19 - “The World of Tomorrow” (10-30-56 to 2-12-57)

D20 - “Shanghaied” (2-13-57 to 4-5-57)

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Li’l Abner (1934 - 1977) - Al Capp [Daily Comic Strip]

 

Li’l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977. It was distributed by United Feature Syndicate. 

Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced the first strip based in the South. Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years writing about a fictional southern town. The comic strip had 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. Author M. Thomas Inge says Capp “had a profound influence on 

the way the world viewed the American South.” 

Li’l Abner also featured a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick was a parody of Chester Gould’s plainclothes detective, Dick Tracy. It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently in Li’l Abner over the next 35 years. Gould was also personally parodied in the series as cartoonist Lester Gooch— the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged “creator” of Fearless Fosdick. 

The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicked Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, the lettering style— even Gould’s familiar signature was parodied in Fearless Fosdick. Fosdick battled a succession of archenemies with absurdly unlikely names like Rattop, Anyface, Bombface, Boldfinger, the Atom Bum, the Chippendale Chair, and Sidney the Crooked Parrot, as well as his own criminal mastermind father, 

“Fearful” Fosdick (aka “The Original”).

 The razor-jawed title character (Li’l Abner’s “ideel”) was perpetually ventilated by flying bullets until he resembled a slice of Swiss cheese.[24] The impervious Fosdick considered the gaping, smoking holes “mere scratches,” however, and always reported back in one piece to his corrupt superior

 The Chief for duty the next day.

Besides being fearless, Fosdick was “pure, underpaid and purposeful,” according to his creator.

He also had notoriously bad aim— often leaving a trail of collateral damage (in the form of bullet-riddled pedestrians) in his wake. “When Fosdick is after a lawbreaker, there is no escape for the miscreant,” Capp wrote in 1956. “There is, however, a fighting chance to escape for hundreds of innocent bystanders who happen to be in the neighborhood— but only a fighting chance.

 Fosdick’s duty, as he sees it, is not so much to maintain safety as to destroy crime, and it’s too much to ask any law-enforcement officer to do both, I suppose.” Fosdick lived in squalor at the dilapidated boarding house run by his mercenary landlady, Mrs. Flintnose. He never married his own long-suffering fiancée Prudence (ugh!) Pimpleton (they’ve been engaged for 17 years), but Fosdick was directly responsible for the unwitting marriage of his biggest fan, Li’l Abner to Daisy Mae in 1952. The bumbling detective became the star of his own NBC-TV puppet show that same year. Fosdick also achieved considerable exposure as the long-running advertising spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil, a popular men’s hair product of the postwar period.

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Li’l Abner 

Years 1934 - 1977  

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