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Tim Tyler's Luck is an adventurecomic strip created byLyman Young, elder brother ofBlondie creatorChic Young. Distributed byKing Features Syndicate, the strip ran from August 13, 1928, until August 24, 1996.[1]
WhenTim Tyler's Luck started in 1928, Tyler was living in an orphanage. However, he soon left the orphanage for the outside world. When he teamed with an older sidekick, Spud, they began globe-trotting for a series of international adventures. Many tales took place in Africa, as noted by comic strip historian Don Markstein:
Starting March 31, 1935, Young added atopper strip,Curley Harper; it ran until January 14, 1945, and sometimes appeared separately.[1]
Young employed several artists, some of whom became famous and successful with their own strips. The illustrators includedAlex Raymond,Burne Hogarth,Clark Haas,Tony DiPreta, Nat Edson and Tom Massey.
In 1972, Young's son, Bob Young, began sharing credit with his father, and after Lyman Young's death in 1984, Bob completely took over the strip.Tim Tyler's Luck slowly faded away, and by the time it was canceled in 1996, it was being carried by only a single paper.
In 2016,The Library of American Comics reprinted one year of the strip (1933) as an installment in itsLoAC Essentials line.
In 1937, a 12-chaptermovie serial starredFrankie Thomas asTim Tyler.
The title of theUmberto Eco novelThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) is taken from the title of a strip episode, in turn inspired byH. Rider Haggard's novelShe.