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PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1962

The Incredible Hulk #1. Cover art by Jack Kirby and Paul
Reinman. The original series was canceled with issue #6
(March 1963).

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COMIC STRIP COVERED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip "Peanuts" made the cover.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1921

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Kevin Joseph "Chuck" Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992)

Chuck Connors was a actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball
player. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional
sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National
Basketball
Association
. With a 40-year film and television career, Connors
is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC
series The Rifleman (1958–63). He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles at the age of 71 of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer.

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RADIO SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1931

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Little Orphan Annie was adapted to a 15-minute radio show that debuted on WGN Chicago in 1930 and went national on NBC‘s Blue Network. It was one of the first
comic strips adapted to radio and the first late-afternoon children’s serial. It had
about 6 million fans, and left the air in 1942. 

when the show debuted, radio had yet to establish coast-to-coast networks so
two separate casts performed—one in San Francisco starring Floy Margaret
Hughes and the other in Chicago with Shirley Bell as Annie, Stanley Andrews
as "Daddy", and Allan Baruck (and later Mel Tormé) as Joe Corntassel.

When coast to coast networking was established in 1933, the Chicago cast
became the permanent one. Announcer Pierre Andre provided Sandy’s "Arf!"
and sang the theme (as Uncle Andy).

 

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Pierre Andre                                    Stanley Andrews

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SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1940

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Ralph Edwards


Truth or Consequences,
a mix of game show elements with wacky stunts,
was originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards (above) from 1940
to 1957. The popular daily syndicated show was produced by Ralph
Edwards Productions. Sponsors included Duz soap, as well as Ivory
soap, Philip Morris, and Pet Milk. Truth or Consequences made its TV
debut on CBS in 1950.

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Action Comics #127 (December 1948), featuring Superman 
appearing on the
show with Ralph Edwards.

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