Lack of Dawn

Friday Brand New Day. Years ago I acquired a large run of Sundays from the late forties early fifties adventure strip Dawn O'Day by Val Heinz. A remarkable strip about a young model trying to make it in Hollywood, because it started out as a Sunday only and was drawn in a faux Milton Caniff style by an artist who was not known for that before or after. Ir may have been a three tier half page Sunday, but I get the impression it was only ever used as a two tier third. In fact, the originals i am showing here only have the two tiers as well. After a year or so the strip was succesful enough to try out a daily run. But that turned out to be unsustainable, either because of of low sales or because iot just was too much work. Val Heinz had been working as an assistant on Gasoline Alley for Frankj King alongside Bill Perry, who later took over Gasoline Ally altogether. I think he went into advertising and signpainting after Dawn O'Day was discontinued in 1954. Before that, the daily version had stopped and although the earlier Sunday formed a continuity, the later ones were in fact seperate gags. I have shown many samples of my run and have scanned all of them. I am not proud to say a huge number of them are still waiting to be cleaned. But here are a couple of later originals, I picked up elsewhere. With that, i have two announcements from Editor and publisher. One for the start of the Sunday feature and one for the start of the daily. I also have an 1948 article about Heinz, Perry and King.