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Digital Comic Museum => Welcome and Introductions => Topic started by: BrianCollins on February 25, 2014, 12:11:13 PM
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Hello all,
I collect a Sunday comic that ran from 1950-1968, "Kevin the Bold". It was illustrated by my grandfather. Any other fans out there?
Thanks,
Brian Collins
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Are you familiar with "The Menomonee Falls Gazette," the weekly tabloid published in the early 1970s? It reprinted both old and new newspaper adventure strips. "Kevin the Bold" ran regularly (in black-and-white) in later issues. I enjoyed the strip very much, but I lost my MFGs to a ceiling leak many years ago, so I can't tell you which issues it appeared in. However a torrent exists which collects issues 1-116. I'll bet you could find your grandfather's strip in some of them.
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MFG issues through about 153 have been scanned. Kevin appeared in 109-213, 215-232. It reprinted the strips by Kreigh Collins from 1955-57. These must have been taken from proofs or a paper that printed in b&w as they are clearly not reprinted from color copies.
I assume you know that Kevin started as Mitzi McCoy. After about two years Mitzi began talking about an ancestor of hers, nad before you knew it, he was the star of the renamed strip.
Then in 1968 it abruptly changed focus again to become Up Anchor, a contemporary sailing strip which ran until 1972.
The MFG are too new to post here (but you can PM me), but the original Kevin strips are pre-1959 and might be hostable here if you could scan them.
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I'm a big fan of Sunday strips, but most of my favorites are prior to WW2. From what I recall of Kevin the Bold the illustration was top notch (at least to my taste for non-cartoon style art).
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Might try here:
http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/c/collins_k.htm
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Thanks for the replies, as a newbie to this forum, I appreciate it. I also don't know how to reply to your comments individually, so this will have to cover all of you.
I'll look in to the Syracuse University archives, and I know my grandmother gave a ton of my grandfather's work to the Grand Rapids, MI library, so I can look into that too. It's a drag having to purchase things on ebay, but even that has dried up for the last year or so.
As for Mitzi McCoy, my uncle (Kevin, the other strip's namesake) gave me its complete run, about 99 Sundays. He and I have talked about trying to publish a book, but I really wonder how much demand there would be, and figure it would be better to publish it on a website or a blog.
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King offers archives at comickingdom.com for some of their old stuff. You will notice that pre-1960 comic strips that were not renewed are welcome here and CB+ takes up through 1963 if not renewed.
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Hi Brian,
A self made blog would cost you next to nothing and of course allow you the most freedom for how it's presented to the world and allow you to cover more than just the Mitzi McCoy strips. It's how I'd go.