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Brenda Starr
Sixty years a journalist, red-haired Brenda Starr began her career as a funny paper version of the pretty girl daredevil reporter who was a staple...
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Buck Rogers
Long before Star Trek and Star Wars, there was Buck Rogers, the first comic strip devoted to science fiction. Debuting early in 1929, it introduced...
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Dashiell Hammett
For a writer who turned out only five novels, Dashiell Hammett made a strong and lasting impression on the twentieth century and is considered one...
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Willie Johnson, Blind
Blind Willie Johnson was an itinerant Texas street singer who made his last record in 1930 and died in poverty. Yet such was the force and...
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Babar
Perhaps the best known elephant in the world, Babar was born in France in 1931. He was first seen in a children's book titled Histoire de Babar,...
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Mutt & Jeff
Mutt was the tall one, Jeff the short one. They were a funny paper team for well over 70 years. Cartoonist Harry "Bud" Fisher invented Mutt first,...
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Popeye
A seagoing superhero, Popeye was first seen in 1929 in E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre . The comic strip itself had been running, dispensing fairly...
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Screwball Comedies
Born in the early 1930s, during the bleakest years of the Depression, the screwball comedy became a very popular variation of the romantic comedy...
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Melvyn Douglas
Although he acted in motion pictures from the early 1930s to the late 1970s, Melvyn Douglas was never especially fond of most of the more than...
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Maxfield Parrish
One of the most popular American artists of the twentieth century and one of the most prolific, in his long career Maxfield Parrish produced book...
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