Hairbreadth Harry
Hairbreadth Harry was the most famous comic strip by Charles William Kahles . It was published from 1906 to 1939. With him melodramatic elements and cliffhangers were introduced into the comic world. In addition, with Belinda Blinks, the friend of the title hero, a working woman appeared in a comic for the first time.
action
The main task of the title character of Hairbreadth Harry was to save his girlfriend Belinda Blinks from the villain Rudolph Rassendale. A wedding between Harry and Belinda, which took place before an interim termination of the comic due to a change of syndicate , was declared invented after the change of syndicate, so that the story could start again.
Publication and draftsman
Creator of Hairbreadth Harry was the German-born artist Charles William Bald . The strip began as a Sunday page on October 21, 1906 and appeared as the daily strip from 1923 . After Kahles' death in 1931, Franklin Osborne Alexander took over the strip and continued it until 1939. While the comic was initially distributed by the McClure Syndicate, six months after its cessation in 1915, the Ledger Syndicate took over the publication of Hairbreadth Harry .
Based on the comic, several short films starring Earl McCarthy as Hairbreadth Harry were released between 1926 and 1928 . In addition, Hairbreadth Harry was also represented in the eight pagers .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge : Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 34.
- ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: Sex in comics . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-548-36518-3 , p. 32.
- ↑ Franklin Osborne Alexander on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on November 18, 2014
- ↑ Hairbreadth Harry in the Internet Movie Database (English) retrieved on November 18, 2014
- ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 62.