* On the Fastrack-About the misadventures at Fastrack, Inc., On the Fastrack has been distributed by King Features Syndicate since 1984.

King Features Syndicate and other syndicates often provide archives of recent strips on their websites.

In one case, in the early 1940s, Don Flowers ' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

* King Features Syndicate ( some properties licensed 1988 to 1990 )

The strip originally centered on Jon, being rejected by the King Features, Post-Hall and the Chicago Tribune-New York News agencies, all which asked Davis to focus on the cat, who in their opinion, got the better lines.

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The Katzenjammer Kids is still distributed by King Features, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication and the longest-running ever.

It was later distributed by the United Feature Syndicate ( while Hearst's King Features distributed The Katzenjammer Kids ).

In addition, the Katzenjammer Kids had cameo roles ( along with a lot of other King Features comic strip stars ) in Filmation's TV special Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter ( 1972 ).

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In February 2004, MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate.

Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features ' trademarked character Mandrake the Magician.

Marge Devine Duffy, a secretary in King Features public relations department, had been helping Russell handle correspondence to the NCS, and in 1948, she was installed as the official NCS secretary and later given the title Scribe of the Society.

The winner was selected by the NCS Board and later by King Features Syndicate, in honor of " Popeye " creator, Elzie Segar.

It is distributed by King Features Syndicate to more than 100 newspapers, and Griffith self-syndicates strips to college newspapers and alternative weeklies.

Several months later it was picked up for worldwide daily distribution by King Features Syndicate in 1986.

King Features Syndicate is reported to have promised a $ 1, 000 / week deal, knowing that a Capp-Rockwell collaboration would gain strong public interest.

Because INS had been a subsidiary of Hearst's King Features Syndicate and Scripps controlled several other newspaper syndicates, both companies feared possible anti-trust issues.

* The All-New Popeye Hour ( 1978 – 1983, co-produced with King Features, CBS )

The strip was launched by King Features on October 14, 1945, more than a year before the film was released.

It is now written and drawn by Ketcham's former assistants, Marcus Hamilton and Ron Ferdinand, and distributed to at least 1, 000 newspapers in 48 countries and 19 languages by King Features Syndicate.

RKO paid King Features $ 1, 000 to use the idea for the film on September 21st.

Earlier, as an animation writer, Kinney was part of the story crew on various Disney, Walter Lantz, UPA and King Features theatrical and TV cartoons.

The first nudge towards modern comic books happened in 1934 when Hungarian Paul Winckler ( who had previously been distributing comics to the monthly magazines via his Opera Mundi bureau ) made a deal with King Features Syndicate to create the Journal de Mickey, a weekly 8-page early " comic-book ".

Currently, the strip appears weekly in more than 300 American newspapers, according to its distributor, King Features Syndicate.

* Paul Robinson, creator of the long-running " Etta Kett " comic strip for King Features Syndicate

He recorded All That May Do My Rhyme for the Trance Syndicate label, owned by the Butthole Surfers's King Coffey, who claimed Erickson told him it was the first time he'd ever been given a royalty check for his music.

Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it follows the adventures of a dog, Earl, and a cat, Mooch.

Questel would remain so until after the King Features Syndicate made-for-TV Popeye shorts in 1960.

Herriman realized his $ 750-per-week salary from Hearst's King Features Syndicate was far more than the revenue the strip could be generating, but Hearst refused Herriman's offer to take a pay cut.

Popeye's trademark has been strictly enforced over the years by King Features Syndicate.

Fleischer Studios utilizes King Features Syndicate to license Fleischer characters for various merchandise.

In 1945, Rand was approached by King Features Syndicate about having a condensed, illustrated version of the novel published for syndication in newspapers.

In 927, Abd-ar-Rahman also launched a campaign against the rebel Banu Qasi clan, but was forced to break it off by the intervention of King Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona.

Bovril's instant beef stock was launched in 1966 and its " King of Beef " range of instant flavours for stews, casseroles and gravy in 1971.

* 1906 – The, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.

The King realised that peace would be impossible if a real invasion of Natal was launched, and that it would only provoke a more concerted effort on the part of the British against them.

That year, Brown also launched, under King auspices, Try Me Records, releasing records off singers such as Tammy Montgomery, Johnny & Bill and the Poets, the latter group confirmed to be that of Brown's backing band.

King Philip the Fair of France officially launched the building of the bridge in 1303 while on a tour to Toulouse.

In July, King Edward I launched his sixth campaign into Scotland.

The main plank of Saudi policy on the issue remains the Arab Peace Initiative, first launched by King Abdullah, as the then Crown Prince, in 2002: Arab governments would offer " normal relations and the security of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands, recognition of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of Palestinian refugees.

During the following winter, King Decebalus launched a counter-attack across the Danube further downstream, but this was repulsed.

In 1122 BC, King Wu of Zhou launched an attack on the Shang capital, and the Shang Dynasty collapsed.

In 1916, pro-Venizelist Greek army officers and civilians, with the support of the Allies, launched the Movement of National Defence, creating a pro-Allied temporary government by the name of the " State of Thessaloniki " that controlled " new lands " ( lands that were gained by Greece in the Balkan Wars, most of Northern Greece including Greek Macedonia, the North Aegean as well as the island of Crete ); the official government of the King in Athens, the " State of Athens ", controlled the " old lands " which were traditionally monarchist.

Because of this, as well as the general strain on the finances of the Spanish throne as a result of the Thirty Years War, on 1 December 1640, the Duke of Braganza, one of the great native noblemen and a descendant of King Manuel I, was proclaimed king as John IV, and a war of independence against Spain was launched.

King Munmu, son of Muyeol and nephew of Kim, launched another campaign in 667 and Goguryeo fell in the following year.

In 1330 King Charles I launched an expedition into Wallachia to restore his authority over that area.

In the ensuing confusion and unrest, King James I of Aragon launched an invasion which landed on Santa Ponsa, Majorca, on September 8 – 9, 1229 with 15, 000 men and 1, 500 horses, entering the city of Medina Mayurqa on December 31, 1229, and annexing the island to his Crown of Aragon after a campaign which climaxed on October 30, 1230.

During the following winter, King Decebalus launched a counter-attack across the Danube further downstream, but this was repulsed.

When the guardians of King Ptolemy VI of Egypt demanded the return of Coele-Syria in 170 BC, Antiochus launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, conquering all but Alexandria and capturing King Ptolemy.

His Royal Highness HM King Nicholas I often appeared on TV and radio around the time his book was launched.

The Eighth Crusade was a crusade launched by Louis IX, King of France, in 1270.

In 1259 Berke launched savage attacks on Lithuania and Poland, and demanded the submission of Bela IV, the Hungarian monarch, and the French King Louis IX in 1259 and 1260.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses ; it stimulated the national civil rights movement and launched King into the national spotlight as a leader.

* HMS Prince of Wales ( 53 ) was a King George V class battleship launched in 1939 and sunk in a Japanese airstrike in 1941.

In 1688, King William's War began and the English and Iroquois launched a major assault on New France, after many years of small skirmishes throughout the English and French territories.