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media. This was discussed and the future of the character in print was agreed upon with a new ongoing daily strip in print being planned to run at the end of the second online story arc, "King of New York." However, due to an untimely accident involving long-standing cartoon editor Ken Layson, with whom the agreement had been made, things became muddied and internal politics with the
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were the originators of the Garth character. Dowling wanted to create a
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213:Daily Mirror
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208:Publisher(s)
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101:October 2019
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43:Please help
38:verification
35:
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1099:Titan Books
959:"Champions"
836:"Body Swap"
639:"Hell Ship"
600:"The Brain"
579:"The Troll"
378:artist and
324:Angus Allan
238:comic strip
192:Launch date
177:John Allard
154:Don Freeman
1292:Categories
1230:8876054960
1206:3499165198
1187:(p.274-5).
1185:0791048543
1155:References
995:"Nasuanna"
989:"Room 202"
986:"Railhead"
977:"Home Run"
715:"Sapphire"
651:"Sundance"
482:"Man Hunt"
375:Spider-Man
252:syndicated
71:newspapers
1208:(pp. 225)
983:"Bigfoot"
956:"Warlord"
814:"Outlaws"
796:"Tigress"
766:"Hunters"
146:Author(s)
1101:, 1984,
1078:, 1975,
1007:"Z File"
636:"Exiles"
426:Shetland
416:Garth's
380:Stan Lee
304:artist,
302:Dan Dare
273:Superman
220:Genre(s)
200:End date
187:(1976-c)
775:"Sammy"
446:"Garth"
336:Garth's
334:became
310:Garth's
85:scholar
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1040:(1971)
1034:(1970)
351:Mirror
236:was a
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1282:Garth
1276:Garth
1137:Garth
1055:Garth
384:Garth
347:Garth
328:Garth
314:Garth
294:Garth
290:Garth
233:Garth
126:Garth
92:JSTOR
78:books
1226:ISBN
1202:ISBN
1181:ISBN
1126:ISBN
1116:ISBN
1103:ISBN
1080:ISBN
282:and
64:news
47:by
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1175:,
1163:^
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