Friday Tonic Day.
One of the most remarkable characters in a popular newspaper comic strip was Fearles Fossdick in Li'll Abner. A parody of Dick Tracy, he was introduced by Abner reading about him in the paper. Even more remarkable is the ad campaign for Wildroot Tonic Water he hosted throughout the fifties. I gathered as many as I could form this Lake Erie paper. I thought there would be doubles, but scrolling through them just now, I could not find nearly as many as I would have suspected. Probably done by his assistants, the strips are completely in the style that was established by Capp.
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