I see a Lil' Abner influence in this! Who cannot like a comic that only has "Big chief Wahoo" but apparently features WC Fields on page 3!
By crashryan
This strip began in the mid-1930s as "The Great Gusto," starring the W.C. Fields clone. Chief Wahoo entered the strip a couple of years later as a supporting character. Wahoo gradually took over the strip and Gusto disappeared. The strip was retitled "Big Chief Wahoo." A few years later a photojournalist named Steve Roper was introduced. Over time he took over the strip, which was renamed "Steve Roper." By this time it had turned from a comedy into an adventure strip. Roper married and started a family. He hired a tough guy assistant, Mike Nomad, to do his leg work. Nomad had ALMOST taken over the strip, now titled "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad," when it ended in 2004.
Additional Information
Name
Big Chief Wahoo 7 | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52
Notes
Contents copyrighted by Publishers Syndicate.
The Eastern Color 1943-1945 ledger at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford, Connecticut, Eastern Color Printing recorded its earnings and costs for issue #4 during October 1944 portion of the ledger. This makes it likely that issue #7, if keeping with a roughly quarterly schedule, was published around at the end of 1945 (Winter 1945) instead of 1943.
Cover
1 page
Genre
Humor
Characters
Big Chief Wahoo; Minnie Ha-Cha
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Feature
Hollister-White Co.
Notes
On inside front cover.
Story
Big Chief Wahoo (48 pages)
Genre
Humor
Characters
Big Chief Wahoo; Bald Eagle [also as Bald-Eagle]; Butterball [also as Butter-Ball]; Don Quinn; El Garlico; Gert; Gusto; Helen; Jerry; Judge Horace; Lucky; Mabel; Moose-Face [also as Mooseface]; Pigtails; Sadie; Tommy Hawk; Tuggles; Wildcat Willie; Henrietta (a chicken); Killer-Diller (a horse)
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