According to comics historian Coulton Waugh, a 1947 poll of newspaper readers who claimed they ignored the comics page altogether revealed that many confessed to making a single exception: Li ' l Abner.

* Waugh, Coulton, The Comics ( 1947 ) Macmillan Publishers

* Waugh, Coulton.

In The Comics ( 1947 ), Coulton Waugh described Willard's art style as " gritty-looking.

Through Li ' l Abner, the American comic strip achieved unprecedented relevance in the postwar years, attracting new readers who were more intellectual, more informed on current events, and less likely to read the comics ( according to Coulton Waugh, author of The Comics, 1947 ).

* Waugh, Coulton, The Comics ( 1947 ) Macmillan Publishers

* Coulton Waugh ( 1896 – 1973 ), artist ( of Dickie Dare comic strip ) and mapmaker, who created a Newburgh pictorial map

Among his earliest influences, he said in 2001, were the Coulton Waugh adventure comic strip Dickie Dare " in The New York Sun.

His son Frederick Judd Waugh ( 1861 – 1940 ), born in New Jersey, is best remembered as a marine painter ; his grandson, Coulton Waugh, was also an artist, known for his work on the comic strip Dickie Dare.

In 1945, Coulton Waugh employed a novel art approach on his PM strip Hank.

Between his stints on Dickie Dare, Coulton Waugh created his short-lived but notable strip, Hank, which began April 30, 1945 in PM.

* Deedes, WF, At War with Waugh: The Real Story of " Scoop ", Macmillan, 2003 ISBN 1-4050-0573-4

Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan, He also painted murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as Face to Face and designed theatrical sets.

Waugh began writing The Loved One in May 1947.

* Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, 1947.

While in military service, Waugh turned his hand to creative writing, completing and publishing his first novel Madam Will Not Dine Tonight in 1947.

* Waugh, Albert E., Sundials: Their Theory and Construction, Dover Publications, Inc., 1973, ISBN 0-486-22947-5.

* Classics of Humour ( Dickens, Charles ; O ' Brien, Flann ; Saki ; Thurber, James ; Twain, Mark ; Waugh, Evelyn ; Wilde, Oscar, Wodehouse, P G, et al., authors ); O ' Mara, Michael ( ed ), Donald Rooum ( Illustrator ) 1976 Book Club Associates ASIN B0010S72HK, 1976 Constable and Company ISBN 0-09-461440-7

* Devlin Waugh ( with John Smith, tpb, Swimming in Blood, 224 pages, 2004, DC, ISBN 1-4012-0392-2, Rebellion, ISBN 1-904265-17-0 ):

* Waugh, John C .; Surviving the Confederacy: Rebellion, Ruin, and Recovery: Roger and Sara Pryor during the Civil War, Harcourt, ( 2002 ) ISBN 0-15-100389-0

* 2002: Men of Waugh: Ashes 2001 ISBN 0-9541985-0-6

* John Waugh: " Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians "; 1995 paperback, McWhiney Press, ISBN 1-886661-03-0.

* Devlin Waugh: " Chasing Herod " ( colours, with John Smith and art by Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD # 1149-1157, June – August 1999, collected in Red Tide, 264 pages, 2005, DC, ISBN 1-4012-0578-X, Rebellion, ISBN 1-904265-29-4 )

" For approximately three years ( 1947 – 50 ), Fox wrote for EC Comics, including scripts and text pieces which appeared in the famous The Crypt of Terror, The Vault of Horror and Weird Fantasy titles, as well as in the lesser-known Gunfighter, Happy Houlihans, Moon Girl, Saddle Justice and the new trend title Valor, among others.

Cole's story " Murder, Morphine and Me ", which he illustrated and possibly wrote for publisher Magazine Village's True Crime Comics # 2 ( May, 1947 ), became a centerpiece of psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham's crusade against violent comic books.

Category: Comics characters introduced in 1947

The early adventures of Robin included Star Spangled Comics # 65-130 ( 1947 – 1952 ), which was the character's first solo feature.

Terry-Toons Comics # 61 ( Oct. 1947 ).

The strip was reprinted in a long-running series of Cupples & Leon books ( 1927 – 1937 ), Big Little Books and comic books for Dell Comics ( starting in 1936 ) and later, the American Comics Group ( 1947 – 1948 ).

* Li ' l Abner ( 1947 ) 9 issues ( Harvey Comics )

Red Ryder Comics consisted of reprints of the newspaper strip until issue # 47 ( June 1947 ), when it began producing original material.

His first three adventures were drawn by creator Dennis Neville ( who modeled Hawkman's costume on the hawkmen characters in the Flash Gordon comic strip by Alex Raymond ), then by Sheldon Moldoff, and later by Joe Kubert, who slightly redesigned his mask in Flash Comics # 85 ( Jul 1947 ) and then, one year later, replaced the winged-hawk-like mask by a much simpler yellow cowl in Flash Comics # 98 ( Aug 1948 ).

* Chic Young's Blondie ( 1947 – 1949 ) David McKay / King Comics, 15 issues

Broome and artist Irwin Hasen created the supervillian Per Degaton as a JSA antagonist in All-Star Comics # 35 ( July 1947 ).

* Bringing Up Father was a feature of David McKay's King Comics title from # 60 to # 135 ( 1941 – 1947 )

McNider's later romantic history is unknown, but another " old friend " of McNider, Miss Alice King, makes an appearance in All-American Comics # 90 ( October 1947 )

Stephen Ross " Steve " Gerber ( September 20, 1947 – February 10, 2008 ) was an American comic book writer best known as co-creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck.

The prototype for the Invaders, the All-Winners Squad, created by publisher Martin Goodman and scripter Bill Finger, was an actual historic Golden Age comic book feature with only two appearances — in All Winners Comics # 19 ( Fall 1946 ) and # 21 ( Winter 1947 ; there was no issue # 20 ).

From 1947 until 1955 in Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Comics and Bugs Bunny Comics there appeared Lula Belle Bunny, another girlfriend of Bugs Bunny.

Christmas on Bear Mountain ( 1947 ) is a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in Dell Comics Four Color Comics # 178.

* Current edition at DC Comics ISBN 0-930289-33-1

* Deluxe Hardcover edition at DC Comics ISBN 1-4012-0690-5

* Goulart, Ron, Ron Goulart's Great History of Comics Books ( Contemporary Press, Chicago, 1986 ) ISBN 0-8092-5045-4

* Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale ( 1992, DC Comics, ISBN 1-56389-026-7 ) ( with John Byrne )

Classical Comics, a UK publisher creating graphic novel adaptations of classical literature, has produced a full colour paperback Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd ( 176 pages, November 2010, Original Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-79-2, Quick Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-80-8, forthcoming ) with script adaptation by Sean M. Wilson, linework by Declan Shalvey ; colouring by Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson and lettering by Jim Campbell.

* Jeremiah: Gun in the Water ( Strip Art Features / Dark Horse Comics, ISBN 978-1-56971-827-8, Nov 2002, Translation of Jeremiah 22: Le Fusil dans l ' Eau )

* Jeremiah: Mercenaries ( Strip Art Features / Diamond Comics Distributors, ISBN 978-1-59396-001-8, Dec 2003, Translation of Jeremiah 20: Mercenaires )

Dark Horse Comics & SAF Comics, ISBN 978-1-59582-945-0, Mar 2012, translation of Jeremiah 1-3.

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