Adventure & Story Classics

Cliffhangers on the comics page — jungle heroes, space travelers, detectives and soap-opera doctors in stories that never stop.

Alley Oop

by V.T. Hamlin

A caveman riding a pet dinosaur got upgraded with a time machine in 1939 and has been crashing through histor…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1932

Dick Tracy

by Chester Gould

The square-jawed detective versus a rogues' gallery of grotesques — Flattop, Pruneface, Mumbles. His two-way …

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1931

Flash Gordon

by Alex Raymond

A polo player, his girlfriend and a mad scientist crash-land on planet Mongo and fight Ming the Merciless. Al…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1934

Gil Thorp

by Jack Berrill

A high-school coach has guided Milford's teams through six decades of championship games and teen drama, one …

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1958

Judge Parker

by Nicholas P. Dallis

Courtrooms, kidnappings and family intrigue in one of the last great story strips still running daily. Create…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1952

Little Orphan Annie

by Harold Gray

A blank-eyed orphan, her dog Sandy and billionaire Daddy Warbucks survived kidnappers, gangsters and the Depr…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1924

Mandrake the Magician

by Lee Falk

A top-hatted hypnotist who "gestures hypnotically" at villains — often cited as comics' first superhero, beat…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1934

Mark Trail

by Ed Dodd / Jules Rivera

A punch-throwing outdoor journalist defends nature from poachers, famously socking villains (and occasionally…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1946

Mary Worth

by Allen Saunders & Dale Connor

The queen of comic-strip soap opera: a silver-haired busybody dispenses advice at Charterstone condos while r…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1938

Prince Valiant

by Hal Foster

A knight of King Arthur's round table in the most lavishly illustrated Sunday page ever printed — no speech b…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1937

Rex Morgan, M.D.

by Nicholas P. Dallis

A handsome doctor has been dispensing diagnoses and small-town drama since 1948 — written originally by an ac…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1948

Rip Haywire

by Dan Thompson

A soldier-of-fortune spoof that loves the adventure strips it parodies: explosions, jungle temples, a cowardl…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 2009

Tarzan

by Hal Foster / Burne Hogarth

The 1929 Tarzan page launched the adventure strip genre overnight, and Burne Hogarth's anatomy-textbook jungl…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1929

Terry and the Pirates

by Milton Caniff

Milton Caniff's cinematic chiaroscuro and the Dragon Lady — comics' greatest femme fatale — set the gold stan…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1934

The Amazing Spider-Man

by Stan Lee & John Romita Sr.

Marvel's wall-crawler swung through newspapers for 42 years, with Stan Lee himself scripting into his ninetie…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1977

The Phantom

by Lee Falk

The Ghost Who Walks predates Superman by two years, making him the first costumed crimefighter in comics. Twe…

🗺️ Adventure & Story Classics est. 1936

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