"The Perishers The Perishers is a British comic strip about a group of urban children and a dog. It began in the ""Daily Mirror"" on 19 October 1959 and was written for most of its life by Maurice Dodd (25 October 1922 – 31 December 2005). It was drawn by Dennis Collins until his retirement in 1983, after which it was drawn by Dodd and later by Bill Mevin. After Dodd died, the strip continued with several weeks' backlog of strips and some reprints until 10 June 2006. The strip returned, again as reprints, on 22 February 2010, replacing ""Pooch"
"""The Perishers"" to television. Dodd left advertising in 1980 and subsequently wrote a number of children's books. In 1983 Collins retired, leaving Dodd to write and draw ""The Perishers"" alone until 1992, when Bill Mevin began doing all the art work for the strip. Dodd continued working on the strip until he died, from a brain haemorrhage, in Shepperton on 31 December 2005. Maurice Dodd Maurice Dodd (25 October 1922 – 31 December 2005) was an English writer and cartoonist best known for his years spent working on ""The Perishers"" comic strip published in the ""Daily Mirror"". Dodd was born"
"Maurice Dodd Maurice Dodd (25 October 1922 – 31 December 2005) was an English writer and cartoonist best known for his years spent working on ""The Perishers"" comic strip published in the ""Daily Mirror"". Dodd was born in Hackney. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force as a Servicing Commando, alongside Bill Herbert. After the war Dodd was demobilised and began to study art. He then found work in advertising and, after he won a competition to write a slogan for ""Time"", Bill Herbert, by then the cartoon editor at ""The Daily Mirror"", offered Dodd"
"Purifiers (Marvel Comics) The Purifiers, also known as the Stryker Crusade, are a fictional paramilitary/terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are usually depicted as enemies of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson, they first appeared in the 1982 graphic novel """". A force of Christian fundamentalists led by the ruthless Reverend William Stryker, the Purifiers see themselves in a holy war against mutants, believing them to be the children of the Devil and thus worthy of extermination. The Purifiers made only sporadic appearances since their first appearance, but returned"
"of which was recorded on 15 April 1968, began with a contemporary scene in which Alderman Mainwaring was the chairman of the Walmington-on-Sea ""I'm Backing Britain"" campaign. Another reference to the campaign appeared in the title of a newspaper comic strip collection. From a distance, its title appeared to read ""The Perishers Back Britain"". Only on closer inspection could the full title be read: ""The Perishers: Back Again to Pester Britain"". ""The Sunday Times"" ran a large article by Nicholas Tomalin on 3 March about ""the serious and comic history of a patriotic idea"". Tomalin quoted one of the original"
"combining the two, ""The Harbinger"". The journal's first issue was published June 14, 1845, and was continuously printed, originally weekly, until October 1847, when it was relocated to New York City, still under the oversight of George Ripley and fellow Brook Farmer Charles Anderson Dana. Naming the publication, however, turned out to be a difficult task. Parke Godwin offered advice when it was suggested to keep the name ""The Phalanx"": Brook Farm began to decline rapidly after its restructuring. In October 1844, Orestes Brownson visited the site and sensed that ""the atmosphere of the place is horrible"". To save money,"
"Sunday Referee The Sunday Referee was a Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom. The paper was founded in 1877 as The Referee, primarily covering sports news. In the 1930s, considerable money was invested in an attempt to compete with the leading Sunday newspapers, and circulation reached 400,000, but in 1939 it was merged with the ""Sunday Chronicle"". In 1925/26 the paper gave front-page coverage for many weeks to apparent revelations by the writer Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman) about the sinking of HMS ""Hampshire"" and the disappearance of Herbert Horatio Kitchener ten years previously. These culminated with Power's"
"The Poor Man's Guardian The Poor Man's Guardian was a penny weekly newspaper published in London, England by Henry Hetherington from July 1831 to December 1835. Hetherington published his ""Poor Man's Guardian"", a successor to his earlier (1830–31) penny daily ""Penny Papers for the People"", as an outright challenge to authority. Published at the low price of a penny per weekly copy it bore the explicit heading: Published contrary to 'law' to try the power of 'might' against 'right'. The paper represented a fight against the consequences of the Six Acts of 1819, imposed by the Tories. The Acts aimed"
"to avoid reprisals from law-enforcement agencies for their terrorist actions, like their raids on the Xavier Institute or the massacre at Cooperstown, Alaska. Combined with their secret nature and fanatical determination, the Purifiers are undoubtedly a deadly foe and a cause of great concern for the remaining mutants. Purifiers (Marvel Comics) The Purifiers, also known as the Stryker Crusade, are a fictional paramilitary/terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are usually depicted as enemies of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson, they first appeared in the 1982 graphic novel """"."
"Crusaders (Marvel Comics) The Crusaders is a group of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters first appear in ""The Invaders"" #14 (March 1977) and were created by Roy Thomas, Jack Kirby, and Frank Robbins. The Crusaders first appear in the World War II title ""The Invaders"" and capture the crew of a crashed German bomber. Accepted by the British people, the team (Captain Wings, Dyna-Mite, Ghost Girl, the Spirit of '76, Thunder Fist, and Tommy Lightning) becomes the official protectors of the current king (George VI), thereby displacing the American superhero team the"
"its predecessor ""The Penny Post"" first appeared in Portsmouth. ""The Penny Post"" (named for its newsstand price) within two years was claiming to have the largest circulation base in New England. The ""Post"" adopted the name ""Portsmouth Herald"" in mid-1897, and cost 2 cents per issue. Traced back through the history of its sister papers, however, the ""Herald"" has an even longer pedigree. In 1891, F.W. Hartford took over ""The Penny Post"" and initiated a newspaper war with two of the city's longest established papers, the ""Morning Chronicle"" (daily since 1852) and the weekly ""New Hampshire Gazette"" (the state's oldest"
"by the Press Association on 25 July, in the United States by ""The New York Times"" and in Britain by ""The Scotsman"" on 26 July, more than five weeks after the sinking. Other British newspapers then covered the story, including the ""Daily Herald"" (also on 26 July), which carried the story on its front page, and ""Sunday Express"" on 4 August; the latter included a photograph of the capsized ship with her upturned hull lined with men under the headline ""Last Moments of the Greatest Sea Tragedy of All Time"". As part of the government-ordered cover-up, survivors and the crews"
"The Chaser (newspaper) The Chaser was a fortnightly satirical newspaper, published in Australia from 1999 to 2005. The masthead continued as a digital publication from 2005, as well as a short-lived app for the Apple iPad in 2010, before resuming print publication as a quarterly journal in 2015. The paper is best known for lending its name to the Australian comedy troupe The Chaser, made up of former contributors to the paper, who have gone on to produce a wide range of media under the Chaser brand. The newspaper was first published on 9 May 1999, and quickly made a"
"The Cornishman The Cornishman is a weekly newspaper based in Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom which was first published on 18 July 1878. Circulation for the first two editions was 4,000. An edition is currently printed every Thursday. In early February 1880 the newspaper reported that it sold 11,000 copies over three editions, published on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. The first Monday edition appeared on 2 February 1880. It formerly had a separate edition to cover the Isles of Scilly. However, it now just has one edition which covers the whole of the Penwith peninsula as well as the Isles"
"first appeared on 12 November 1841. Its first editors were D. Meldola and M. Angel. It was first issued as a weekly until May 1842, when it was suspended. From October 1844 it was resumed as a fortnightly, with Joseph Mitchell as its editor. In 1847 it became again a weekly newspaper. A. Benisch, who became the proprietor and editor in 1855, bequeathed the paper to the Anglo-Jewish Association in 1878, who sold it to its new editor and anti-Zionist Asher I. Myers, Sydney M. Samuel and Israel David. In 1881 the leaders of the Jewish community in London were"
"early 19th century. In the 1850s ""Punch"" magazine frequently printed satirical images of crossing sweepers, depicting ""each one [as] a nuisance of modern life."" An 1856 article in the magazine entitled ""The Crossing Sweeper Nuisance"" offered nineteen humorous descriptions of different sweepers, including (invented) tales of woe designed to elicit sympathy, for example ""a Crimean soldier, who was flogged and dismissed the army for protecting a female from the insults of his commanding officer."" A more sympathetic portrayal was William Powell Frith's 1856 painting ""The Crossing Sweeper"" (pictured at the top of this article), the popularity of which was evinced"
"creating pictures of current events. In late 1835, he issued a print illustrating a recent fire in New York. ""Ruins of the Merchant's Exchange N.Y. after the Destructive Conflagration of Decbr 16 & 17, 1835"" was published by the ""New York Sun"", just four days after the fire, and was an early example of illustrated news. In 1840, Currier began to move away from job printing and into independent print publishing. In that year, the ""Sun"" published his print ""Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat 'Lexington' in Long Island Sound on Monday Eveg Jany 13th 1840, by Which Melancholy Occurrence"
"The Western Grazier The Western Grazier (1880–1951) was a newspaper covering the central Darling River region of New South Wales, and published at Wilcannia until 1940, when it was published and printed out of Broken Hill. Wilcannia's first newspaper was the ""Wilcannia Times"", a bi-weekly founded in 1873 by William Webb (March 1848 – 15 November 1910), and ceased publication in 1888. The ""Western Grazier"" was established on 2 December 1880 by James Smith Reid. Reid was an Irish printer-journalist who had previously established several mining journals in Queensland, including ""The Miner"" in Charters Towers and Thornborough. After the establishment"
"five hundred copies from a printer in Philadelphia. The five men sold most of the copies of this issue throughout the Hill District on January 5, 1910. During this period, ""Courier"" issues were four pages in length. In early March 1910, Robert Lee Vann drew up incorporation papers for the ""Courier"" and began writing articles. Although the ""Courier"" was being printed by the Union News Company in Pittsburgh to save money, by March Harleston began to run out of money for the paper. Through Vann's connections, the paper was able to attract some wealthy investors, including Cumberland Willis Posey Sr.."
"enormously successful and achieved sales of 15,000 copies a week all over the country despite being London-based. Bronterre O'Brien, later a regular contributor to the ""Northern Star"", edited the ""Poor Man's Guardian"" from 1832. The Poor Man's Guardian The Poor Man's Guardian was a penny weekly newspaper published in London, England by Henry Hetherington from July 1831 to December 1835. Hetherington published his ""Poor Man's Guardian"", a successor to his earlier (1830–31) penny daily ""Penny Papers for the People"", as an outright challenge to authority. Published at the low price of a penny per weekly copy it bore the explicit"
"owners, over the literacy of some apothecaries. He illustrated this with an admission note he had received from a local apothecary: When first opened, Fisherton Asylum took private and pauper patients and was superintended by Mr Charles Finch (uncle of William Corbin Finch) who in 1828 placed an advertisement in a local newspaper, ""The Salisbury & Winchester Journal"": (original spelling and grammar retained) By 1837 there were 100 inmates, of whom 60 were paupers, paid for by local government funds. Following the passing of the Criminal Lunatics Act in 1800, initiated by the attempted assassination of King George III, an"
"the ""Courier"" was pro-Confederacy. The ""Courier"" was suppressed by the Union and had to move to Nashville, but returned to Louisville after the war. In 1868, an ailing Prentice persuaded the 28-year-old Henry Watterson to come edit for the ""Journal"". During secret negotiations in 1868, ""The Journal"" and the ""Courier"" merged and the first edition of ""The Courier-Journal"" was delivered to Louisvillians on Sunday morning, November 8, 1868. Henry Watterson, the son of a Tennessee congressman, had written for ""Harper's Magazine"" and the ""New York Times"" before enlisting in the Confederate Army. He became nationally known for his work as"
"Advertiser"" that the first number would be issued on 23 November 1751. The release was delayed until January because of work related to the publication of ""Amelia"". At the time of the publication of the journal, Covent Garden, although formally associated with the theatre industry, was more widely known as London's red light district. Fielding had earlier written ""The Covent Garden Tragedy"", a mock-tragic play concerning the tale of two prostitutes. The first number of the periodical was published on 4 January 1752, and sold at a price of three pence. For most of its run, the journal was issued"
"a resolution was adopted urging abolitionists to leave unresponsive churches, ""to come out from among them and be separate."" Garrison's radical ideas defined a strong split within the anti-slavery societies, and Garrison was abandoned by all but a dedicated core group of like-minded abolitionists. The Boston-based group of reformers began to be called ""come-outers"". Garrison's newspaper, ""The Liberator"", served to spread his view of abolition and anti-institutionalism. From time to time, news items about come-outers would appear, some culled from other journals. In 1851, Garrison quoted an article entitled ""Come-outers in jail"" which appeared in ""The Barnstable Patriot"": ""Several of"
"in the evolution of the modern newspaper occurred at the start of the 1620s, when a group of London publishers and printers began disseminating printed news sheets based on the Dutch style of news bulletin, called a ""coranto,"" that was a recent innovation at the time. This group included Butter, Thomas Archer, Edward Allde, Bartholomew Downes, William Newberry, and William Shefford, with Archer and Butter as apparently the most prominent participants. Archer was jailed for printing corantos without permission in 1621 — but in the same year a license to publish the news bulletins was issued to an ""N. B.,"""
"Striker (comic) Striker is a fictional British comic strip and former magazine, which is created by Pete Nash and features in the British tabloid newspaper ""The Sun"". The strip first appeared in The Sun on Monday November 11, 1985 and ran in the newspaper daily until August 2003, when the author decided to launch the strip as a weekly independent comic book. However, the strip returned to ""The Sun"" during October 2005, after the comic book had published 87 issues and suffered financial problems. Over the four years the newspaper strip was published daily until the end of September 2009,"
"beneath the East End of Long Island. The first of these, in 1963, happened by mistake when founder Dan Rattiner incorrectly printed the timetable of trains in the paper. He received a call from the local stationmaster, who told him a crowd of people were there waiting for a train that doesn't exist. The error made Rattiner realize he could do things to get the whole town talking about his paper. Dan's Papers Dan's Papers is a free weekly lifestyle publication in the Hamptons, Long Island, New York, USA, founded by Dan Rattiner.The first of the papers that would later"
"In 1965, Prattis retired from the ""Courier"" after John H. Sengstacke purchased the ailing paper. Some famous contributors to the ""Courier"" were Joel Augustus Rogers, who worked as a journalist for the ""Courier"" in the 1920s, and Sam Milai, editorial cartoonist for the ""Courier"" for 33 years. The ""Courier"" was the first to spot the talent of a young William Gardner Smith, who was hired by the ""Courier"" while still in high school. This was in 1943, some years before he gained fame as an expatriate novelist and journalist living in France. Trezzvant Anderson covered the early years of the"
"the ""Hannibal Gazette"" (1846); the ""Hannibal Messenger"" (1851); and a Palmyra weekly, the ""Missouri Courier"", founded in 1832 and consolidated with the ""Gazette"" in 1848. The ""Journal"" converted to a daily March 16, 1853, the ""Messenger"" in 1858. The ""Messenger"" combined with the ""Courier"" in 1863, adopting the name ""North Missouri Courier"". The daily ""Courier"" in 1891 merged with the ""Daily Post"", marking the debut of the name ""Hannibal Courier-Post"". The ""Morning Journal"" was acquired in 1918. Individual owners had published the ""Courier-Post"" and its predecessors since the 1850s, including Thomas B. Morse, who had founded the ""Daily Post"" in"
"and the current ""Marshall News Messenger"" (originally the ""Marshall Morning News""). The Marshall Morning News was founded in 1919, with the first issue appearing September 7. It was founded by Homer Price and Bryan Blalock. Several notable people began careers at ""The Marshall News Messenger"": Bill Moyers began his journalism career at age sixteen as a cub reporter, and popular Texas radio talk show host, Mattie Dellinger, had her first job in journalism there in 1953. The ""Texas Republican"" and the ""Tri-Weekly Herald"", both published by Robert W. Loughery, were credited with aiding the election of Marshall citizens J.P. Henderson,"
"The Satirist The Satirist, or the Censor of the Times was a controversial 19th century British newspaper which featured reports of scandals involving well known residents of London. It was published by Barnard Gregory, who faced multiple libel charges and was later imprisoned due to its articles. ""The Satirist"" was frequently criticised by commentators, and James Hain Friswell described it as a ""poor imitation of ""Town and Country"""". ""The Satirist"" was first published on April 10, 1831, at that time it cost 7d. It was published weekly and released on Sundays. The paper became notorious for the allegations it published"
"The newspaper, first published in 1999, was The Chaser team's first enterprise. ""The Chaser"" only had a limited fan base, with the average sales numbers per issue well under 30,000. When their newspaper was shown as a lead story in all major Australian news broadcasts, not only was the headline widely spread, the concept and the popularity of the newspaper leapt dramatically. Founding contributors to the newspaper include Gregor Stronach, Johanna Featherstone, Sholto Macpherson, Matt Taylor, David Stewart, and Arion McNicoll. Later contributors include Kara Greiner, Richard Cooke, Shane Cubis, and Tim Brunero. Cartoonists Fiona Katauskas and Andrew Weldon drew"
"great that May 21, 1787, ""Claxton & Babcock in King street between Hoosick and South Streets,"" in answer to what they believed to be a demand for a local newspaper, brought out the first issue of the first newspaper published in Lansingburgh-the Northern Centinel and Lansingborough Advertiser. It was a weekly publication and the first newspaper printed within the limits of the territory now known as Rensselaer county. Strange as may seem, it did not contain a line of local news except the publishers' announcement to the public. Its contents consisted of several columns of European ""news"" three months old,"