Wednesday Hollywood Day.
Some years ago I collected a whole lot of Sunday strips from the Midland Reporter Telegram. The MRT was a NEA paper, which means that they had all of the lesser known and lesser distributed strips from that syndicate, some of my favorites (and very hard to find). Unfortunately the mico-fiche scans were very bad, ranging from way too dark to far too light. Cleaning out my files, I decided to share them anyway for the unseen gems that may be among them.
Patsy in Hollywood was created by AP regular Mel Graff in a faux (but very well executed) Milt Caniff style. In the early forties the artwork was taken over by Charles Raab, one of the most forgotten Caniff illustrators. After he left to got to war, the strip was taken over by George Storm and Richard Hall, who changed it from a Caniff style adventure strip to a cuter gag strip. In Bill Dyer (1946-1955) returned it to a more adult series, which actual storylines and funny Sundays. The Sundays were marked by the fact that the last panel gag always was half a page. I have actually been able to find a few in color (as well as having an original), which I have shared earlier. But here are some more - and because the coloring was softer, the micro-fiche scans actually turned out better than the others in this series of posts.
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