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Show 0 Mescal Ike's Crea-tor Crea-tor Weaned On Milk Pail, Cradled Cra-dled on Mustang It is seldom that a comic strip has become so popular in such a short time as has "Mescal Ike," the comedy come-dy epic cf the Golden West now appearing ap-pearing in this paper each week. Today To-day it ranks among the topnotch r" Y IE ' ' 1 I ' " 1 S , ' " s " -to : . -t 4, -' r -t - - - J ixWtiS: : :::: S. L. HUNTLEY comics of the country, and is followed follow-ed by millions of readers from coast to coast. S. L. Huntley, creator and author of "Mescal Ike," was bora in Texas. His rattle was a maguey rope on the other end of which bucked a "salty ox." He was weaned with a milk bucket and took his first toddling steps astride a wide-eyed mustang. Now he's six feet, one inch tall and is more comfortable in a saddle than in bed. All the tang and charm, the bluff humor and slapstick play of the 1 West in which he was reared, Mr. Huntley has managed to put into "Mescal Ike." "Mescal Ike" is alive : and that is why it has attained its popularity. You'll like Mescal Ike, Miss Sally '. Price, Sheriff Lem Stebbins, Dirty Shirt Mulloney, Pa Piffle and all : the rest of the boisterous characters : in this laughter-provoking new '. ;omic. |
