A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC ( and later PKZIP, using the same ". zip " algorithm that WinZip and other popular archivers now use ); also other concepts of software distribution like freeware, postcardware like JPEGview and donationware like Red Ryder for the Macintosh first appeared on BBS sites.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

Other shows were adapted from comic strips, such as Blondie, Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, The Gumps, Li ' l Abner, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye the Sailor, Red Ryder, Reg ' lar Fellers, Terry and the Pirates and Tillie the Toiler.

* When You Comin ' Back, Red Ryder?

He has made one-off appearances, including on Red Nose Day's The Ultimate Makeover, where Hancock, Anna Ryder Richardson, Phil Tufnell and TV gardener Joe Swift transformed a Liverpool play centre for children whose parents could not afford child-care.

Gotto presented Ozark Ike to promoter Stephen Slesinger, who also managed Red Ryder, King of the Royal Mounted and the merchandising of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Blake as Little Beaver. In 1944, Blake began playing a Native American boy, " Little Beaver ," in the Red Ryder Western series at the studios of Republic Pictures ( now CBS Radford Studios ), appearing in twenty-three of the movies until 1947.

In 1940, Daisy went from spacemen to cowboys with their Red Ryder BB Gun that still is in production today.

Though the Red Ryder comic strip is not as popular as it was with its spin-offs on radio and the cinema, the Red Ryder BB Gun gained a new life from the film A Christmas Story based on Jean Shepherd's short stories.

However, it was the Buck Jones BB gun, rather than the Red Ryder one that featured a compass and sundial in the stock.

Red Ryder was a popular long-running Western comic strip created by Stephen Slesinger and artist Fred Harman.

Beginning Sunday, November 6, 1938, Red Ryder was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, expanding over the following decade to 750 newspapers, translations into ten languages and a readership in the United States of 14 million.

Slesinger brought Harman to New York and worked with him for a year before Red Ryder was ready to be syndicated.

Slesinger then embarked on a successful campaign of merchandising and licensing with a seemingly endless parade of comic books, Big Little Books, novels, serial chapters, radio programs, events, rodeos, powwows, commercial tie-ins and licensed products such as the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun, which remains the longest continuous license in the history of the global licensing industry.

The appeal of the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun to youngsters was depicted in the Christmas classic film A Christmas Story, adapted from the autobiographical fiction of Jean Shepherd, by permission of Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc., which owns the Red Ryder trademarks and copyrights.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

* Omega Red from Marvel Comics

* Sin ( Marvel Comics ), Synthia Schmidt or Mother Superior, the daughter of the Red Skull in Marvel Comics

* Red Shift ( comics ), a fictional supervillan in the Marvel Comics universe and one of the Heralds of Galactus

In October 1973, Archie's new Red Circle Comics imprint debuted with Chilling Adventures in Sorcery # 3 ( formerly Chilling Adventures in Sorcery as told by Sabrina ), later morphing into Red Circle Sorcery with issue # 6, running for a further six issues, until issue # 11 ( February 1975 ).

A small handful of other short-lived, non-Archie, titles were published by Red Circle Comics before — in 1978 / 79 — two digests were published collecting some of the Archie Superhero comics from the previous decade.

Initially published by JC Comics in JCP Features # 1, ( December 1981 ), in March 1983, the first issue of Mighty Crusaders appeared, leading to a procession of new titles under the Red Circle Comics banner, soon to be re-branded ( in February 1984 ) the Archie Adventure Series, before cancellation in September 1985.

" DC Comics regained the license to the characters in 2008 and began assimilating the Red Circle heroes into its continuity following Final Crisis.

Writer J. Michael Straczynski is overseeing the current effort, which carries the logo of Red Circle Comics.

* Red Beetle, a DC Comics character

In the early 1970s, Fox briefly worked for DC's rival publisher, Marvel Comics, writing scripts for features such as Doctor Strange, Dracula and Red Wolf.

* Ratchet, a character in the Red Lantern Corps DC Comics series

The Red Skull is a name shared by several fictional characters, all supervillains from the Marvel Comics universe.

The Red Skull was first introduced in Captain America Comics # 1 in 1941.

The Red Skull was introduced in Timely Comics ' Captain America Comics # 1 ( cover-dated March 1941 ), written and drawn by the team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

The more enduring Johann Schmidt version of the Red Skull was created by writer France Herron and artist Kirby ( with Simon on inks ); he first appeared in Captain America Comics # 7 ( Oct. 1941 ).

Ultimate Red Skull shown on the variant cover to Ultimate Comics: Avengers # 1.

The Ultimate Marvel version of Red Skull appears in Ultimate Comics: Avengers created by Mark Millar.

After the continuity changes as a result of the DC Comics relaunch, it was said that Tim Drake never took up the Robin mantle as he felt that it would be inappropriate to take it up so soon after Jason Todd's death, and that he served as Batman's sidekick under the name of Red Robin.

* Frank Thorne ( born 1930 ), comic book artist and writer best known for popularizing the Marvel Comics character Red Sonja.

Dell Comics launched its Red Ryder in August 1941, changing its title to Red Ryder Ranch Magazine with # 145, and then to Red Ryder Ranch Comics with # 149.

The German invasion of France, with subsidiary attacks on Belgium and the Netherlands, consisted of two phases, Operation Yellow ( Fall Gelb ) and Operation Red ( Fall Rot ).

Each chain consisted of a Master station and three ( occasionally two ) Slave stations, termed Red, Green and Purple.

While the Red Guards consisted mostly of volunteers ( who, at the beginning of the war, were paid wages ), the White Army contained only 11, 000 – 15, 000 volunteers, the remainder being conscripts.

Mao's doctrines of guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare were based upon the fact of the poor armament and military training of the Red Army which consisted mainly of impoverished peasants, who, however, were fired by revolutionary passions and the aspiration for a communist utopia.

The most popular of the Mouseketeers comprised the so-called Red Team, which consisted of the following:

The first, a non-contiguous line with a small gap in the middle of Dog White sector and a larger gap across the whole of Easy Red sector, was 270 yards ( 250 m ) out from the highwater line and consisted of 200 Belgian Gates with mines lashed to the uprights.

That night Barn Dance followed the NBC Red Network's Music Appreciation Hour, which consisted of classical music and selections from the Grand Opera genre with Walter Damrosch as emcee.

American Defenders of New Hampshire, LLC consisted of Nokona executives Buddy Lewis and Jerry O ' Connor, former Boston Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, and Terry Allvord.

The Soviet Union held many parades in Red Square for May Day, Victory Day, and the October Revolution which consisted of propaganda, flags, a labor demonstration, and a troops march and show-off of tanks and missiles.

However, most of the German inhabitants, which then consisted primarily of women, children, and old men, did manage to escape the Red Army as part of the largest exodus of people in human history.

In the late 1880s, he was Governor of the Red Sea Territories ( which in practice consisted of little more than the Port of Suakin ) with the brevet rank of Colonel.

The first board of governors consisted of Red Dutton, Art Ross, Frank Sargent ( president of the CHA ), Lester Patrick, Abbie E. H. Coo, Wes McKnight, Basil E. O ' Meara, J. P. Fitzgerald and W. A. Hewitt.

Of architectural note, rare gambrel roof structures still survive in Charlestown including the “ Red Lyon Tavern .” Early construction materials consisted of log, stone and brick.

" Taking the waters " at Red Boiling Springs generally consisted of more than merely ingesting them ; steam and tub baths featuring the waters and their alleged therapeutic properties were often featured.

The borough council consisted of 5 representatives for the Socialist Left, 4 for Labour, 2 each for Conservatives and Progress and 1 each for the Red Electoral Alliance and the Liberals.

Now known as the Wolseley Expedition ( or Red River Expedition ), it consisted of Canadian militia and British regular soldiers led by Colonel Garnet Wolseley.

According to the Statistical Chart of the Field Army Personnel, Weaponry, Ammunition, and Supply completed by the Chinese Red Army on October 8, 1934, two days before the Long March begun, the Communist Long March force consisted of:

The initial Simply Red line-up consisted of Mick Hucknall ( vocals ), David Fryman ( guitar ), Tony Bowers ( bass ), Fritz McIntyre ( keyboards and vocals ), Tim Kellett ( brass and live backing vocals

During the Long March, near the end of 1934, Liu was reappointed as Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army and commander of Central Column, which consisted of the majority of the CPC senior leaders, such as Bo, Braun, Zhou and Mao.

In January 2003, Singaporean artist Justin Lee Chee Kong was prevented by the Media Development Authority ( MDA ) from exhibiting a painting entitled Double Happiness — A Fantasy in Red, which consisted of an image of the Singapore flag with various red images of the Chinese characters for double happiness.

The technology infrastructure at MP3. com consisted of over 1500 simple Intel based servers running Red Hat Linux ( versions 5. 2 – 7. 2 ) in load balanced clusters in data centers run by AT & T, Worldcom and the now defunct Exodus Communications.

It consisted of a ' Toreador Red ' Saab 93 with all excess weight removed, including the bonnet, which was replaced by a plastic one.

The order consisted of a white-enamelled badge, which had a golden Hammer and Sickle badge surrounded by two golden panicles of wheat on a Red Star, backed by crossed hammer, plough, torch and a red flag bearing the motto Proletarians ( Workers ) of the World, Unite !.

The gang consisted at various times of Bill Doolin, George " Bittercreek " Newcomb ( aka " Slaughter Kid "), Charley Pierce, Oliver " Ol " Yantis, William Marion " Bill " Dalton, William " Tulsa Jack " Blake, Dan " Dynamite Dick " Clifton, Roy Daugherty ( a. k. a. " Arkansas Tom Jones "), George " Red Buck " Waightman, Richard " Little Dick " West, and William F. " Little Bill " Raidler.