Sunday Surprise Day.
Somewhere last year I went and picked a lot of Gus Mager Monk comics. I haven't processed all of them, but here are the Groucho the Monk ones. One of the many Monks he used, and which is famous for inspiring the Marx Brothers' nicknames. My biggest surprise in this series is that most 'daily' newspaper strips from the Hearst group in that period ran only weekly (and whenever they felt like it). There were one or two comics every day, but most creators had several series and seems to have rotated without any order. My guess is they really were on staff and filled theor spot (with a gag or with a political cartoon if that's what they preferred) whenever they had a new idea.
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