Crime Edd

Saturday Leftover Day. 

 In past years I have shared some of the daily crime serials that King Features offered to thei clients. They appeared daily, took a week (six episodes) to finish and most were illustrated by Paul Norris (in a hybrid of his Alex Raymond and Milt Caniff styles) and Edd Cartier, certainly in the late forties. I just discovered a great source for those serials where they were published together on four pages in a Sunday newspaper. My first samples are from 1953, when other artists appeared. But Edd Cartier seems still to have been there (if they weren't reprints). Better still, although some daily papers dropped one of the six illustrations on occasion, these 'complete' versions had all the illustrations as well. These samples are from 1953, but as far as I can tell this feature started in May 1952.