King of the Royal Mounted
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King of the Royal Mounted is an American comics series which debuted February 17, 1935[1] by Stephen Slesinger, based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed as Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted. The series' protagonist is Dave King, a Canadian Mountie who always gets his man and who, over the course of the series, is promoted from Corporal to Sergeant. King has appeared in newspaper strips, comics, Big Little Books, and other ancillary items.
King of the Royal Mounted | |
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Author(s) | Stephen Slesinger Romer Grey, Gaylord Du Bois |
Illustrator(s) | Allen Dean, Charles Flanders, Jim Gary |
Current status/schedule | Concluded daily & Sunday strip |
Launch date | February 17, 1935 (Sundays), March 2, 1936 (dailies) |
End date | February 14, 1954 |
Syndicate(s) | King Features Syndicate |
Publisher(s) | Big Little Books, Dell Comics |
Genre(s) | Western, Northern |
Zane Grey's son Romer and Slesinger collaborated on many of the stories, and the artwork was produced by Allen Dean, Charles Flanders, and Jim Gary in Slesinger's New York studio. A movie serial was produced in 1942.