* 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.

* King Features Syndicate

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 ).

* King Features

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 ".

The King Biscuit Flower Hour was a syndicated radio show presented by the D. I. R.

The first Disney comics appeared in daily newspapers, syndicated by King Features with production done in-house by a Disney comic strip department at the studio.

Two short versions of the sequence exist: in original airings where the opening was shortened due to time constraints and in some syndicated airings, the opening featured the shot of the IPS truck going under the bridge, then to the final shot of the credits where Doug and Carrie get ices at the Lemon Ice King of Corona on 108th St in Queens.

On June 7, 1908, the strip moved off the sports pages and into Hearst's San Francisco Examiner where it was syndicated by King Features and became a national hit, subsequently making Fisher the first big celebrity of the comics industry.

The syndicated package features Dudley Do-Right Of The Mounties, The World Of Commander McBragg, The King And Odie, and The Hunter.

Hägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne ( 1917 – 1989 ), and syndicated by King Features Syndicate.

A syndicated package prepared for distribution outside the United States ( and also aired on the Boomerang cable network ) usually featured two brief Underdog episodes in a single show along with a wider variety of other Total TV cartoon shorts which appeared in between such segments: Go Go Gophers, King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, Klondike Kat, Tennessee Tuxedo, The Hunter, Tooter Turtle, and Commander McBragg.

The King Biscuit Flower Hour is a one hour syndicated rock and roll radio program the name of which was derived from King Biscuit Time.

Randy ’ s comic panel “ The Better Half ” is syndicated by King Features Syndicate, appearing seven days a week in print and online newspapers around the world.

According to publisher King Features Syndicate, it is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world, appearing in 1, 500 newspapers.

Other syndicated police strips include Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted, depicting police work in the contemporary Canadian Northwest, Lank Leonard's Mickey Finn, which emphasized the home life of a hard-working cop, and Dragnet, which adapted stories from the pioneering radio-TV series into comics.

* The Greaseman ( syndicated morning show ), with local producer Roger King.

Stan Barron returned to the station, bringing back his " Free-Form Sports " program, and overnights eventually shifted from Dick Rifenburg's music show to Mutual's syndicated Larry King talk show.

As of 2010, it continues to be syndicated by King Features and is now included in 1, 500 newspapers.

The column was eventually syndicated to 146 papers via King Features Syndicate.

The series contained original material alongside reprints from older Donald Duck strips from the 1930s and 1940s, as well as more modern material from the King syndicated strip from the 1980s.

* Gary King ( now presents syndicated show, ' Totally 80s ')

His adventures are set in 1938 Los Angeles and New York, and Stevens gave them a retro, nostalgic feel influenced by the King of the Rocket Men movie serial, the syndicated Commando Cody TV series ( both from Republic Pictures ), and pinup diva Bettie Page.

Initially syndicated by Chronicle Features, it moved to the Universal Press Syndicate and then King Features.

It was originally syndicated by Washington Post Writers Group before switching to King Features Syndicate in 1993.

* Wheel of Fortune ( 1975 – present ) ( produced by Merv Griffin Productions 1975-1984, MGE 1984-1994, CTT 1994-2002, and SPT 2002 – present ; syndicated nighttime version distributed by King World ( 1983 – 2007 ), CBS Television Distribution ( 2007 – present ))

The feature proved so popular that it was eventually syndicated by King Features Syndicate beginning in 1936, with a Sunday panel added on July 4, 1943.

Ed Hindson ( born Edward Hindson on December 21, 1944 ) is an American Christian evangelist and current host of The King Is Coming, a syndicated television broadcast shown across the United States.