biography
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| male
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| (1884–1957)
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| biography:
| Newspaper syndicate executive, born in Dixon, Illinois, USA. The son of a teacher, he studied at the University of Chicago before founding the National Newspaper Syndicate (1917), which distributed the work of prominent journalists at low cost to newspapers. Credited with originating the ‘Buck Rogers’ comic strip, he first saw the possibilities in a novel, Armageddon 2419 AD by Philip Nowlan, and commissioned Richard Calkins to draw the strip, introducing the long-running science-fiction adventure in 1929. At its peak of popularity, 287 newspapers in 40 countries carried the feature. |
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