Jed Cooper was a staple of the fifties and appeared two papers from which I have large runs, but mostly from the later fifties. I never actually scanned it, because I found it a poor cousin to the Milton Caniff influenced strips and it's historical subject made it slightly boring. But when I came across the first few years of Richard Martin (Dick) Fletcher and Loyd Wendt' Sunday only strip, I changed my mind. At least it looked gorgeous back then. Fletcher also did Sugeon Stone before this strip, from which I have pretty much the whole run and will show some day in the future. Loyd Wendt was a Chicago journalist. It struck me that his last name is the same as Chicago born Cheers actor George Wendt, but there seems to be no connection.
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"Jed Cooper was a staple of the fifties and appeared in many papers."
What you say surprises me, for I think it apperared only in the "Chicago Tribune".
I have only a color newspaper Sunday, but I have black and white syndicate proofs from ALL the 1952 and 1953 and they are really excellent. I wish I had the previous years, so I could publish them.
You are right. It seemed to me to be in many papers because I have long runs of the two papers that carried it, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Both sadly, mostly the later fifties.
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