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For me (at least as a child) it was always and forever Lee Falk's classic hero The Phantom. Also known as The Ghost Who Walks and hence, 'Mr Walker' when he puts on 'normal' garb.
I was such a fan I tracked down a lending library near my grandparents' place where I spent my precious pocket money not just on Phantom comics, but also on the occasional Phantom novel (yes, they were so popular that Lee Falk had 'novelised' them).
Second on the list, of course, was Lee Falk's other great creation, Mandrake the Magician.
For some reason I don't quite enjoy 'comment' comics as much (Doonesbury et al). Perhaps I just remained the sort of boy who's holding out for a hero who's gotta be fast and he's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fresh from the fight sort of thing. (Hmmmm... that sounded a touch homoerotic there for a second, until I realised that I wanted to be that hero, not to know him.)
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My youth was filled with "Peanuts", "Dick Tracy" and "Andy Capp".
Now it's "Calvin and Hobbs", "The Far Side", "The Wizard if Id" and especially "Zippy the Pinhead".
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The Phantom! Damn, for a Spurs fan you have good taste. As a child, a highlight of my week was when my Dad would bring me the new issue. I'm kind of embarrassed now to think about the money that represented over a few years for a single Dad raising 3 kids, but I really enjoyed The Phantom. Sadly, though, shanks, you can never be The Phantom. I've got dibs on it.
Another comic strip I really enjoyed was one that I suspect only Pfranz will remember. Stanley. An underappreciated gem from a prominent NZ caroonist, imo.
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Yeah, you're right. I remember it, although I preferred Footrot Flats meownself. Stanley was too obviously a ripoff (conceptually) from BC, which is still my all-time favouritest strip ... 
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> Stanley was too obviously a ripoff (conceptually) from BC, which is still my all-time favouritest strip ...
Even as a kid, I could tell that, and I guess because I was a kid, it didn't bother me. BC was one of my favourites at the time, and I enjoyed them both.
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i loved teh comics, when i was very young (early school years) we bought 2 sunday papers, the daily news and the journal american.
I like Dondi (the little orphaned italian boy who was brought to live in america) and Potsy (the fat fun cop--the creater of potsy son had his 15 minutes of fame with the 'fake' biography of
i liked blondie, and gasoline alley, and ripleys believe it or not.
brenda starr and mandrake too, --but not till i got older--same with orphan annie.
i loved the katzenjammer kids, and toonerville trolley, and mut and jeff.
when i was older i liked more comics, but i still liked the old ones. i alwasy thought *dotty and archie were stupid.(was it dotty? there was a comic book dottie, and casper, and there was a comic about a girl very like dotty (a dumb blonde --even though she wasn't blonde) I liked betty boop cartoons, but i never much liked betty boop comics.
i guess my all time favorite were the Far Sides--
i bought collections of comics for my kids, but they never were as excited about them as i was. but they too came to love the page a day far side calendars.
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For modern strips my faves are Non Sequitur (I usually *do get it), For Better or for Worse (for pure soap opera appeal), La Cucaracha, Doonesbury, and Boondocks (for political content). Smokey Stover was pure goofiness and the source of that immortal phrase 'Notary Sojac.' http://www.smokey-stover.com/
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I like it sometimes, but the occasional religious themes bother me.
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Shows how long it's been since I read BC - I did not know that the author had started preaching in it. It must be 20 years since I last followed the strip. Most of my recollections of it are based on anthologies my Dad owned, probably older strips.
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