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Our favorite role models, The Katzenjammer Kids, turned 110 years old yesterday. In case you weren’t aware, the newspapter strip is still being published each Sunday. Created by Rudolph Dirks and first appearing in William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal on December 12, 1897, the strip was among the very first to be regularly published…
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Mark Mardon was a petty career criminal whose capture was, ironically, the best thing that ever happened to him. On his way to prison, Mardon escaped and fled to the home of his brother Clyde. Clyde was a scientist and had just created a wand that could control weather in its immediate vicinity. The brothers…
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From a week ago, but great fun anyway. Y’know, I hear they’ll need a new cast soon…
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