The best comic strip ever

The best comic strip ever Dr. Guy Bennett (as Dr. B.C. Douglas)

The author of Dr. Guy Bennett was Dr. Michael Anthony Petti originally of Brockton, MA. He went to Dartmouth and UPenn before joining the US Navy to fight in WWII. He fought with the Seabees in the south pacific and spent two years on the island of Bouganvilla, surviving bombings and treating the war wounded. He practiced medicine in Cleveland, OH and retired to Naples, FL in 1983. He resideded at Moorings Park until he died at age 93. Until his death he continued to write newsletters and publish interesting health facts and advice WYKTIS “what you know that isn’t so”. Moorings Park built and named a fitness facility for Dr. Petti in 2009.

Art by James Edward “Jim” Seed was born in Toledo, Ohio, on April 14, 1927. According to the 1927 Toledo City Directory his family resided at 1036 Page Street. His birth date was at the Ohio Birth Index at Ancestry.com.

Art by Frank Thorne, 16 June 1930

Frank Thorne started his comic book career in 1948, when Standard Comics gave him several romance stories to pencil. After graduation, he drew the ‘Perry Mason’ newspaper strip for King Features, which was followed by more comic book work for Dell. He turned out a multitude of stories for ‘Flash Gordon’, ‘Jungle Jim’, The Green Hornet’, and many more. Thorne’s breakthrough came in 1975, when he was asked to draw ‘Red Sonja’ for Marvel. He left ‘Sonja’ in 1978 to create his own woman warrior ‘Ghita of Alizzar’. Since then there has been no stopping to Thorne’s vein of erotic fantasy, creating ‘Lann’ for Heavy Metal and ‘Moonshine McJuggs’ for Playboy during the 1980s and ‘The Iron Devil’ and ‘The Devil’s Angel’ during the 1990s.