Archives Update June 7, 2020

1939: 118 of 312 (+0)

1946: 195 of 313 (+0)

1947: 117 of 313 (1)

1948: 30 of 314 (+0)

1949: 285 of 313 (+0)

1954: 246 of 313 (+0)

1956: 313 of 313 (+0)

1963: 53 of 313 (+0)

1968: 138 of 314 (+0)

1969: 222 of 312 (+0)

1970: 287 of 313 (+0)

1971: 209 of 313: (+0)

1972: 279 of 313 (+0)

Just one strip from December 1947 added this. There are now 2,492 strips spread over 13 years from Hamlin’s 40-year tenure on the strip. That pushes the Archive to 61.24% of the strips produced during those 13 years.

Earlier this week I helped Mark out by finding and posting the May 1, 1942 strip. The hard part was finding a newspaper that ran the strip. After that, it was easy to clip and post the strip. I don't understand why GO Comics doesn't hire someone at minimum wage and have them go day-by-day through a newspaper file – a lot of old newspapers online- and build the archive. I'm going to guess that a person could probably go through a month (25-27 dailies) in less than an hour. They could really build this archive if they wanted to.