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2040:What a Guy!
2012:Tumbleweeds
1998:Triple Take
1900:Sam's Strip
1893:Rusty Riley
1599:Gummi Bears
1529:Dr. Kildare
1522:Donald Duck
1445:Boner's Ark
1247:Sally Forth
1240:Safe Havens
1219:Rae the Doe
1184:The Phantom
1093:Hi and Lois
781:The Courier
543:Miss Freeze
298:Daily strip
279:Sunday page
246:Buck Rogers
186:created by
184:comic strip
160:Preceded by
108:Launch date
95:(1983–1989)
88:(1943–1977)
65:(1943–1977)
21:Buzz Sawyer
2244:War comics
2239:Spy comics
2188:Categories
1676:Jungle Jim
1606:Half Hitch
1494:Crankshaft
1473:Buz Sawyer
1417:Betty Boop
1403:Baron Bean
1325:Historical
1156:Mary Worth
1142:Mark Trail
1121:Laff-a-Day
1030:Carpe Diem
981:Baby Blues
920:Buz Sawyer
913:NCS Awards
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677:References
626:Test Pilot
589:Wish Jones
563:Revolution
460:Buz Sawyer
414:Buz Sawyer
412:The daily
353:Indiantown
342:Buz Sawyer
320:Biff Baker
316:Buz Sawyer
308:Buz Sawyer
291:Wash Tubbs
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165:Wash Tubbs
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48:Buz Sawyer
44:Buz Sawyer
31:Buz Sawyer
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1851:Red Barry
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1550:Etta Kett
1543:Edge City
1536:Dumb Dora
1044:Deflocked
662:The Cobbs
575:Buz Alone
501:Mr. Flint
437:In 2011,
402:Roy Crane
385:from the
370:Roy Crane
327:drew the
188:Roy Crane
155:Adventure
86:Roy Crane
63:Roy Crane
59:Author(s)
2081:DailyINK
1781:The Norm
1275:Six Chix
750:June 18,
595:Doldrums
452:DailyINK
152:Genre(s)
116:End date
2064:Related
1767:My Cage
1585:Grandma
1466:Buckles
1016:Blondie
1009:Bizarro
966:Current
922:scripts
609:Locusts
598:Zazarof
347:titled
269:I drew
202:During
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2019:Tundra
1928:Skippy
1872:Retail
1858:Redeye
1837:Quincy
1382:Archie
1191:Popeye
1149:Marvin
1058:Dustin
1037:Curtis
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377:Awards
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1956:Teena
1907:Scamp
1641:Henry
1634:Hejji
1620:Hazel
1501:Crock
1308:Zippy
1294:Tiger
1170:Mutts
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645:Paint
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578:Diana
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212:Navy
167:and
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637:VTO
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