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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Michael Diesman.
El Cajon , Ca: Blackthorne Publishing, 1987. Steve Roper and Mike Nomad was an American adventure comic strip that ran under various titles from November 1936 to December 26, 2004. Initially distributed by Publishers Syndicate, it ended its 68-year run at King Features Syndicate. The strip was originally proposed by Elmer Woggon as The Great Gusto, drawn by himself and written by Allen Saunders (who would also write Mary Worth and Kerry Drake), but it never appeared under that title. J. Mortimer Gusto was a freeloading opportunist based on the film persona of W.C. Fields. (In his autobiography, Saunders said Fields was flattered.) But the syndicate preferred his sidekick Wahoo, so the proposal was revamped to center on him, and the strip debuted on November 23, 1936 as Big Chief Wahoo. Wahoo was a short Native American in a ten-gallon hat who was played for laughs but showed courage, loyalty, and common sense. It was whites who were often the targets of the jokes (Wahoo: "Paleface full of prunes!"), and of vigorous defenses of Native Americans (e.g., December 16, 1941). Wahoo was rich due to the discovery of oil on his land back in Te(e)pee Town (spelled both ways), and headed to New York to find his girlfriend Minnie Ha-Cha, who had gone to college and was now a beautiful singer in a nightclub. On the way, he was joined by Gusto, who liked Wahoo's medicine so much that he bottled it up for sale as Ka-Zowie Kure-All. Gusto continued as a support character through August 1939, and then was dropped. The strip initially revolved around humorous tales, such as stories about people trying to cheat Wahoo out of his money or fish-out-of-water tales of Wahoo in New York or Hollywood. But from the beginning, it was a continuity strip, and had already moved into serious adventure by 1940, when a dashing young photojournalist named Steve Roper was introduced. (Sundays continued to do gags until rejoining the main plot line in 1944.) By World War II, Roper was the lead in war-oriented adventures, and the strip was retitled Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper in 1944, then Steve Roper and Wahoo in 1946, and in 1947 simply Steve Roper, as Wahoo and Minnie were written out. As a very different kind of strip now, its artwork lost its earlier cartoonishness, ghosted by artists like Woggon's brother Bill Woggon, Don Dean, and (beginning December 1945) Pete Hoffman. But Woggon remained the strip's letterer and researcher until his death in 1977. [edit] 1946—1970 After his World War II service in Navy intelligence, Roper got a job at Spotshot magazine (renamed Spotlight in 1950), and from then on the main action was set in New York. As good with his fists as with his cameras and typewriter, he built a reputation as a racket-busting ace reporter and editor. In 1951, he got engaged to his "boss lady," Kit Karson, but she abandoned him when he got framed on a story and broke jail (1953). Vindicating himself in a major crime ring bust, he was snapped up by competitor Major McCoy at Tell magazine (soon renamed Proof). He continued exposing crimes and frauds, even on routine assignments like covering rock stars or beauty pageants, but his sense of moral outrage kept landing him in fiendish criminal traps that nearly finished him — and some of the crooks he sent "up the river" with his exposés came back for revenge. On July 12, 1954, the artwork was taken over by William Overgard, who on June 17, 1956 introduced a character whom he had tried unsuccessfully to feature in a strip of his own. Mike Nomad (born Nowak in Kraków, Poland) had served in World War II as an Army commando. After working in oil fields, he looked up Roper to verify his Proof photo of a smuggler he thought he had killed. They solved the case together, and then Roper got him a job at Proof as a truck driver. The two men were different: pipe-smoking Roper was a quick-thinking, college-educated "straight arrow" from a wealthy San Francisco background, while flat-topped Nomad was a tough, street-smart antihero, loyal to friends and family b. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Illustrations.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Michael Diesman.
El Cajon , Ca: Blackthorne Publishing, 1987. Steve Roper and Mike Nomad was an American adventure comic strip that ran under various titles from November 1936 to December 26, 2004. Initially distributed by Publishers Syndicate, it ended its 68-year run at King Features Syndicate. The strip was originally proposed by Elmer Woggon as The Great Gusto, drawn by himself and written by Allen Saunders (who would also write Mary Worth and Kerry Drake), but it never appeared under that title. J. Mortimer Gusto was a freeloading opportunist based on the film persona of W.C. Fields. (In his autobiography, Saunders said Fields was flattered.) But the syndicate preferred his sidekick Wahoo, so the proposal was revamped to center on him, and the strip debuted on November 23, 1936 as Big Chief Wahoo. Wahoo was a short Native American in a ten-gallon hat who was played for laughs but showed courage, loyalty, and common sense. It was whites who were often the targets of the jokes (Wahoo: "Paleface full of prunes!"), and of vigorous defenses of Native Americans (e.g., December 16, 1941). Wahoo was rich due to the discovery of oil on his land back in Te(e)pee Town (spelled both ways), and headed to New York to find his girlfriend Minnie Ha-Cha, who had gone to college and was now a beautiful singer in a nightclub. On the way, he was joined by Gusto, who liked Wahoo's medicine so much that he bottled it up for sale as Ka-Zowie Kure-All. Gusto continued as a support character through August 1939, and then was dropped. The strip initially revolved around humorous tales, such as stories about people trying to cheat Wahoo out of his money or fish-out-of-water tales of Wahoo in New York or Hollywood. But from the beginning, it was a continuity strip, and had already moved into serious adventure by 1940, when a dashing young photojournalist named Steve Roper was introduced. (Sundays continued to do gags until rejoining the main plot line in 1944.) By World War II, Roper was the lead in war-oriented adventures, and the strip was retitled Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper in 1944, then Steve Roper and Wahoo in 1946, and in 1947 simply Steve Roper, as Wahoo and Minnie were written out. As a very different kind of strip now, its artwork lost its earlier cartoonishness, ghosted by artists like Woggon's brother Bill Woggon, Don Dean, and (beginning December 1945) Pete Hoffman. But Woggon remained the strip's letterer and researcher until his death in 1977. [edit] 1946—1970 After his World War II service in Navy intelligence, Roper got a job at Spotshot magazine (renamed Spotlight in 1950), and from then on the main action was set in New York. As good with his fists as with his cameras and typewriter, he built a reputation as a racket-busting ace reporter and editor. In 1951, he got engaged to his "boss lady," Kit Karson, but she abandoned him when he got framed on a story and broke jail (1953). Vindicating himself in a major crime ring bust, he was snapped up by competitor Major McCoy at Tell magazine (soon renamed Proof). He continued exposing crimes and frauds, even on routine assignments like covering rock stars or beauty pageants, but his sense of moral outrage kept landing him in fiendish criminal traps that nearly finished him — and some of the crooks he sent "up the river" with his exposés came back for revenge. On July 12, 1954, the artwork was taken over by William Overgard, who on June 17, 1956 introduced a character whom he had tried unsuccessfully to feature in a strip of his own. Mike Nomad (born Nowak in Kraków, Poland) had served in World War II as an Army commando. After working in oil fields, he looked up Roper to verify his Proof photo of a smuggler he thought he had killed. They solved the case together, and then Roper got him a job at Proof as a truck driver. The two men were different: pipe-smoking Roper was a quick-thinking, college-educated "straight arrow" from a wealthy San Francisco background, while flat-topped Nomad was a tough, street-smart antihero, loyal to friends and family b. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Illustrations.