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Alex Raymond

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Alexander Gillespie "Alex" Raymond (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist, best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934. [1]

139 relations: Al Parker (artist), Al Williamson, Alex Toth, Apartment 3-G, Austin Briggs, Batman, Billy DeBeck, Blondie (comic strip), Blue Book (magazine), Bob Haney, Bob Kane, Brick Bradford, Buck Rogers, Carl Barks, Cartoonist, Catholic Church, Cerebus the Aardvark, Checker Book Publishing Group, Chevrolet Corvette, Chic Young, Christmas card, Civil engineer, Collier's, Comic strip, Cosmopolitan (magazine), Dale Arden, Darien, Connecticut, Dark Horse Comics, Dashiell Hammett, Dave Sim, Dick Dillin, Dick Sprang, Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Drew Friedman (cartoonist), EC Comics, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Escort carrier, Esquire (magazine), Everett Kinstler, Fantagraphics Books, Femme fatale, Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon (film), Frank Brunner, Frank Giacoia, Franklin Booth, Gasoline Alley, Gene Colan, George Lucas, Ghostwriter, ..., Glamourpuss (comics), Golden Age of Comic Books, Grand Central School of Art, H. Rider Haggard, Hal Foster, Hans Zarkov, Iona Preparatory School, Jack Katz (artist), Jack Kirby, Jerry Bails, Jerry Robinson, Jim Aparo, Jim Raymond, Joe Kubert, Joe Orlando, Joe Shuster, Joe Sinnott, John Buscema, John La Gatta, John Romita Jr., José Luis García-López, Jules Verne, Jungle Jim, Kevin Dillon, King Features Syndicate, Kurt Schaffenberger, Leslie Charteris, Look (American magazine), Luis García Mozos, Lyman Young, Mac Raboy, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Malay Peninsula, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Marvel Comics, Mary Worth, Matt Dillon, Mike Richardson (publisher), Mike Royer, Milton Caniff, Ming the Merciless, Mort Meskin, Mortgage broker, Murphy Anderson, National Cartoonists Society, New Rochelle, New York, Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Phaidon Press, Photorealism, Polo, Prince Valiant, Pulp magazine, R. C. Harvey, Rip Kirby, Rocket, Roger Sabin, Roy Crane, Rudyard Kipling, Russ Manning, Russ Westover, Santa Barbara, California, Secret Agent X-9, Serial film, Sheldon Moldoff, Silver Age of Comic Books, Society of Illustrators, Speech balloon, Speed limit, Stan Drake, Star Wars, Sunday comics, Superman, Television show, Tillie the Toiler, Tim Tyler's Luck, Time (magazine), Topper (comic strip), United States Marine Corps, USA Today, USS Gilbert Islands, Wall Street, Wall Street Crash of 1929, Ward Greene, Westport, Connecticut, Will Eisner, Woody Gelman, Woolworth Building, World War II, Young Romance. Expand index (89 more) »

Al Parker (artist)

Al Parker (1906–1985) was an American artist and illustrator.

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Al Williamson

Alfonso "Al" Williamson (March 21, 1931 – June 12, 2010) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western and science-fiction/fantasy.

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Alex Toth

Alexander "Alex" Toth (June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006) was an American cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s.

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Apartment 3-G

Apartment 3-G was an American newspaper soap opera comic strip about a trio of career women who share the eponymous Apartment 3-G in Manhattan.

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Austin Briggs

Austin Briggs (September 8, 1908 – October 10, 1973) was a cartoonist and illustrator.

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Batman

Batman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Billy DeBeck

William Morgan DeBeck (April 15, 1890 – November 11, 1942), better known as Billy DeBeck, was an American cartoonist.

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Blondie (comic strip)

Blondie is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young.

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Blue Book (magazine)

Blue Book was a popular 20th-century American magazine with a lengthy 70-year run under various titles from 1905 to 1975.

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Bob Haney

Robert G. "Bob" Haney (March 15, 1926 – November 25, 2004) was an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics.

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Bob Kane

Robert Kane, known professionally as Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998), was an American comic book writer and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman.

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Brick Bradford

Brick Bradford was a science fiction comic strip created by writer William Ritt, a journalist based in Cleveland, and artist Clarence Gray.

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Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers is a fictional space opera character created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the novella Armageddon 2419 A.D., subsequently appearing in multiple media.

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Carl Barks

Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cerebus the Aardvark

Cerebus (also Cerebus the Aardvark) is a comic book series created by Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim, which ran from December 1977 until March 2004.

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Checker Book Publishing Group

Checker Book Publishing Group is an independent publisher of comics reprints, from newspaper strips to modern out-of-print titles and collections from defunct publishers.

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Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette, known colloquially as the Vette or Chevy Corvette, is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet.

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Chic Young

Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, 1901March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Blondie.

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Christmas card

A Christmas card is a greeting card sent as part of the traditional celebration of Christmas in order to convey between people a range of sentiments related to the Christmas and holiday season.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Collier's

Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women, which was formerly titled The Cosmopolitan. The magazine was first published and distributed in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine (since 1965).

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Dale Arden

Dale Arden is a fictional character, the fellow adventurer and love interest of Flash Gordon and a prototypic heroine for later female characters, including Princess Leia and Padme Amidala in Star Wars.

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Darien, Connecticut

Darien is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 37 miles north of New York City.

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Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book and manga publisher.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.

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Dave Sim

Dave Sim (born 17 May 1956) is a Canadian cartoonist and publisher, best known for his comic book Cerebus, his artistic experimentation, his advocacy of self-publishing and creator's rights, and his controversial political, philosophical and religious beliefs.

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Dick Dillin

Richard Allen "Dick" Dillin (December 17, 1928 – March 1, 1980) at the United States Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org.

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Dick Sprang

Richard W. Sprang (July 28, 1915 – May 10, 2000), SSN 527-40-9109, at the United States Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org.

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001.

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Drew Friedman (cartoonist)

Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph.

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EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.

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Escort carrier

The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (US hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and the United States Navy in World War II.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Everett Kinstler

Everett Raymond Kinstler (born August 5, 1926, in New York City) is an American artist, whose official portraits include Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

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Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.

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Femme fatale

A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations.

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Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.

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Flash Gordon (film)

Flash Gordon is a 1980 science fiction action film based on the King Features comic strip of the same name created by Alex Raymond.

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Frank Brunner

Frank Brunner (born February 21, 1949) is an American comic book artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.

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Frank Giacoia

Frank Giacoia (July 6, 1924 – February 4, 1988) was an American comics artist known primarily as an inker.

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Franklin Booth

Franklin Booth, (July 8, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations.

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Gasoline Alley

Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Content Agency.

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Gene Colan

Eugene Jules "Gene" Colan (September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011) at the Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author.

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Glamourpuss (comics)

glamourpuss was a Canadian independent comic book written and illustrated by Dave Sim which was published from April 2008 until July 2012 and ran for 26 issues.

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Golden Age of Comic Books

The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era of American comic books from the late 1930s to circa 1950.

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Grand Central School of Art

The Grand Central School of Art was an American art school in New York City,(September 6, 1929).

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

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Hal Foster

Harold Rudolf Foster (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982), better known as Hal Foster, was a Canadian-American comic book artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant.

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Hans Zarkov

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Iona Preparatory School

Iona Preparatory School (commonly known as Iona Prep) is an independent, Roman Catholic, all-male, college preparatory school located in the north end of New Rochelle, New York, in suburban Westchester County.

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Jack Katz (artist)

Jack Katz (born 1927) at the Lambiek Comiclopedia is an American comic book artist and writer, painter and art teacher known for his graphic novel The First Kingdom, a 24-issue epic he began during the era of underground comix.

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Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.

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Jerry Bails

Jerry Gwin Bails (June 26, 1933 – November 23, 2006) was an American popular culturist.

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Jerry Robinson

Sherrill David Robinson (January 1, 1922 – December 7, 2011), known as Jerry Robinson, was an American comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics' Batman line of comics during the 1940s.

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Jim Aparo

James N. Aparo (August 24, 1932 – July 19, 2005) was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960s and 1970s DC Comics work, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman and the Spectre.

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Jim Raymond

Jim Raymond (1917–1981) was a comic strip artist and the younger brother of Flash Gordon artist Alex Raymond.

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Joe Kubert

Joseph "Joe" Kubert (September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School.

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Joe Orlando

Joseph "Joe" Orlando (April 4, 1927 – December 23, 1998) was an Italian American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades.

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Joe Shuster

Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992) was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938).

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Joe Sinnott

Joe Sinnott (born October 16, 1926) is an American comic book artist.

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John Buscema

John Buscema (born Giovanni Natale Buscema; December 11, 1927 – January 10, 2002), for Buscema, John N., Social Security Number 108-20-9641.

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John La Gatta

John La Gatta (May 26, 1894 – January 21, 1977), also spelled LaGatta, was one of the most famous illustrators of the first half of the 20th century.

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John Romita Jr.

John Salvatore Romita, professionally known as John Romita Jr. (born August 17, 1956), is an American comics artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2010s.

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José Luis García-López

José Luis García-López (born March 26, 1948) is a Spanish comics artist who works in the United States of America, particularly in a long-running relationship with DC Comics.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Jungle Jim

Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media.

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Kevin Dillon

Kevin Brady Dillon (born August 19, 1965 is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Johnny "Drama" Chase on the HBO comedy series Entourage, Bunny in the war film Platoon, and John Densmore in the musical biopic The Doors. He was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his performance on Entourage.

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King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.

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Kurt Schaffenberger

Kurt Schaffenberger (December 15, 1920 – January 24, 2002) was an American comics artist.

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Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.

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Look (American magazine)

Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.

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Luis García Mozos

Luis García Mozos (born 1946) is a Spanish comic book artist.

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Lyman Young

Lyman W. Young (October 20, 1893 – February 12, 1984) was an American cartoonist who created the strip Tim Tyler's Luck.

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Mac Raboy

Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy (April 17, 1914 – December 12, 1967) was an American comics artist best known for his comic-book work on Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel Jr. Brent Frankenhoff & Maggie Thompson The Greatest Comic Book Covers Of All Time.

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Magnus, Robot Fighter

Magnus, Robot Fighter is a fictional comic book superhero created by writer/artist Russ Manning in 1963.

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Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula (Tanah Melayu, تانه ملايو; คาบสมุทรมลายู,, မလေး ကျွန်းဆွယ်, 马来半岛 / 馬來半島) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Marine Corps Base Quantico

Marine Corps Base Quantico (commonly abbreviated MCB Quantico) is a United States Marine Corps installation located near Triangle, Virginia, covering nearly of southern Prince William County, Virginia, northern Stafford County, and southeastern Fauquier County.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Mary Worth

Mary Worth is an American newspaper comic strip that has had a seven-decade run from 1938.

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Matt Dillon

Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor and film director.

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Mike Richardson (publisher)

Mike Richardson (born June 29, 1950) is an American publisher, writer, and Emmy-winning producer.

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Mike Royer

Michael W. Royer (born June 28, 1941, Lebanon, Oregon) is a comic book artist and inker, best known for his work with pencilers Russ Manning and Jack Kirby.

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Milton Caniff

Milton Arthur Paul "Milt" Caniff (February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.

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Ming the Merciless

Ming the Merciless is a character who first appeared in the Flash Gordon comic strip in 1934.

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Mort Meskin

Morton "Mort" Meskin (May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995)Social Security Death Index, SS# 071-16-1099.

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Mortgage broker

A mortgage broker acts as an intermediary who brokers mortgage loans on behalf of individuals or businesses.

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Murphy Anderson

Murphy C. Anderson, Jr. (July 9, 1926 – October 22, 2015) was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s.

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National Cartoonists Society

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.

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New Rochelle, New York

New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.

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Pacific Ocean theater of World War II

The Pacific Ocean theater, during World War II, was a major theater of the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.

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Phaidon Press

Phaidon is a global publisher of books on art, architecture, photography, design, performing arts, decorative arts, fashion, film, travel, and contemporary culture, as well as cookbooks and children’s books.

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Photorealism

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

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Polo

Polo is a team sport played on horseback.

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Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is an American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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R. C. Harvey

Robert C. Harvey (born 1937), popularly known as R. C. Harvey, is an author, critic and cartoonist.

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Rip Kirby

Rip Kirby is a comic strip featuring the adventures of the eponymous lead character, a private detective created by Alex Raymond in 1946.

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Rocket

A rocket (from Italian rocchetto "bobbin") is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.

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Roger Sabin

Roger Sabin is an English writer about comics and lecturer at Central St. Martins in London, England.

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Roy Crane

Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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Russ Manning

Russell George "Russ" Manning (January 5, 1929"United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VMMT-NZN: accessed 28 Aug 2014), Russell Manning, Dec 1981; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing). – December 1, 1981) Accessed November 8, 2008.

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Russ Westover

Russell Channing "Russ" Westover (March 8, 1886 – May 3, 1966) was a cartoonist best known for his long-run comic strip Tillie the Toiler.

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Spanish for "Saint Barbara") is the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U.S. state of California.

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Secret Agent X-9

Secret Agent X-9 was a comic strip created by writer Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and artist Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon).

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Serial film

A serial, film serial, movie serial or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.

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Sheldon Moldoff

Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff (April 14, 1920 – February 29, 2012) was an American comics artist best known for his early work on the DC Comics characters Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and as one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" (uncredited collaborators) on the superhero Batman.

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Silver Age of Comic Books

The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre.

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Society of Illustrators

The Society of Illustrators is a professional society based in New York City.

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Speech balloon

Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.

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Speed limit

Road speed limits are used in most countries to set the maximum (or minimum in some cases) speed at which road vehicles may legally travel on particular stretches of road.

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Stan Drake

Stanley Albert Drake (November 9, 1921 – March 10, 1997) was an American cartoonist best known as the founding artist of the comic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Sunday comics

The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most western newspapers, almost always in color.

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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Tillie the Toiler

Tillie the Toiler is a newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Russ Westover who initially worked on his concept of a flapper character in a strip he titled Rose of the Office.

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Tim Tyler's Luck

Tim Tyler's Luck was an adventure comic strip created by Lyman Young, elder brother of Blondie creator Chic Young.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Topper (comic strip)

A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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USS Gilbert Islands

USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107) (ex-St. Andrews Bay) was a of the United States Navy.

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Wall Street

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.

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Ward Greene

Ward Greene (1892–1956) was an American writer, editor, journalist, playwright, and general manager of the comic syndicate King Features Syndicate.

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Westport, Connecticut

Westport is an affluent town located in Connecticut, along Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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Will Eisner

William Erwin "Will" Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur.

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Woody Gelman

Woodrow Gelman (1915 – February 9, 1978), better known as Woody Gelman, was a publisher, cartoonist, novelist and an artist-writer for both animation and comic books.

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Woolworth Building

The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912, is an early US skyscraper.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Young Romance

Young Romance is a romantic comic book series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Comics in 1947.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Raymond

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