List of newspaper comic strips
The cases ranged from famous assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, Leon Trotsky, and Julius Caesar and the lives and often deaths of the likes of Cesare Borgia and Blackbeard to more obscure cases, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her husband Joshua Spooner in and became the first woman tried and executed in America. Soap-opera continuity strips such as Judge Parker and Mary Worth gained popularity in the s. Penny Singleton was cast in the title role of the feature film Blondie , co-starring with Arthur Lake as Dagwood the first in a series of 28 produced by Columbia Pictures. Introduced April 15, , the strip centers on environmental and ecological themes. A series of letters that Jack saved, mainly to and from comic book editors, primarily covering the Spunky, Jr.
