Thereafter, the three are homeless and squat on Abbey Spencers property until they are discovered. Years before the ongoing narrative begins, Alan Parkers wife Mary died, leaving the judge a widower with two children, Ann in nursing school and Randy, in high school. Hugo later threatens to kill Bonnie when she figures out that he murdered Jasper. Wilson wisely saw the need for some new characters for Sam and Abbey to interact with. In 2005, Riley suggested that Randy run for his fathers spot on the bench as word as gotten out that Alan Parker would be retiring soon. This long-running subplot doesnt pay off until Randy finally takes his retiring fathers spot on the bench in 2009. Sophies arch enemy, a mean girl cheerleader who attempts to steal Derek Wilcox away from her. Contact Alan Parkers son and ultimately a judge himself. Ezra dies of a heart attack while working at the farm. Rocky and Godiva partner with Neddy. She often finds herself in trouble, and has poor taste in men. Horace comes out of the encounter unscathed, unless you count him getting to married to one of the cult devotees, Alpha. It turns out that Horace is an old flame of Rachel Cabot. Ann is primarily shown demonstrating repeated poor judgment in her choice of men to romance. Jeep, though, would serve a most important role in Judge Parkers life. A number of times they mention that she was her cousinso Abbey does not have a second half-sister. Senna shares Abbeys red hair and shapely figure, but she has a hardened expression and is extremely volatile. 11/66-12/66). When Jasper dares to defy Hugos will, the plump conman brutally disparages the fitness instructor. Sandra Deere tries to snag the Judge. In 2006, she helps Randy on his campaign to be elected judge in Alans place. It emerges that Eric has been blackmailed into becoming part of a smuggling operation. Her hothead father, a disgraced cop named Sean Ballenger (3/17-5/17) inadvertently lures Sam Driver into a death trap set by Senna. Collectively, Rex Morgan, Judge Parker, and Apartment 3-G loom very large in the world of story strips between 1950 and 1990. One complaint readers had made in the Wilson era was that the characters of the comic strip all seemed to live charmed lives of unrecognized privilege. Handsome, if two-timing romantic interest of Ann Parker. The wisest and most insightful of the women in Dallis strips, Tommie Tompkins and Gloria Sanchez, were the least lucky in love. Judge Parker is still featured in many a newspaper comic strip section, but readers might be forgiven for wondering why it still has that name. Whose people and history does this iconic symbol represent? He tried 13,490 cases, with 9,454 of them resulting in guilty pleas or convictions. On 1/1/88, Abbey and Sam speak to the reader directly, warning them of the dangers of driving while drunk. I thought it would help some of my people to know that they can escape the ghetto, if they dont lose hope, and are willing to work hard.. 1996 Keith St. James romances Abbey, Trudi disapproves. 10/15/16-11/16, 1/17-4/17, (referenced 5/17-6/17). Sams old college buddy who excelled at basketball shows up at Spencer Farms and trouble related to an unresolved gambling debt follows. 2010 Neddy falls in and out of love with shoe designer, Julian Edgemont. The Phantom writer Tony DePaul confirmed that Bret is the artist today on his blog: 1952 Ann Parker, the Judges daughter, gets dangerously involved in one his cases. Laura suffering from D.T.s finally brings him around. Trudis overly protective, sometimes short-tempered and often ill advised brother. But as soon as that case is wrapped up, Gloria tells Sam that wealthy heiress Abbey Spencer wants to get a hold of him. Cal Reynolds. Craig Lewis. Also serves as a helpmate to Alan Parkers literary efforts. Hank is a brown-haired design engineer hired by Rocky Ledge to help build Neddys clothing factory. Plot lines would drag on for weeks or months; you could go on a two week vacation without a daily Judge Parker and come back having missed very little of the story. 1961 Wellington and Jeep thwart a gang. In private, though, the rather short Balsom is prone to malicious eye rolls and sinister expressions. Thank you. 2 Pardoned by the President. When Anns boy friend gets suspicious, the police intervene, one of the officers fatally shot in the process. Nicholas Dallis seems to have made something of a misstep (in my humble opinion, anyway) with the introduction of a trio of cute pre-teens. Unfortunately he has a girl friend, a snooty and aggressive bad girl named Honey Ballenger. 1957 Wellington Marks starts high school. New York: Comet Press Books, 1959. 2000 Sam and Abbey honeymoon, Neddy visits Mark, and the Judge is kidnapped. In 1875, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) was populated by cattle and horse thieves, whiskey peddlers, and bandits who sought refuge in the untamed territory free of a "White Man's Court.". But to judge Judge Parker in isolation is to miss the larger picture, the 10,000 foot view that puts the Judge in context with the rest of the comic world. In 2017, she and Alan separate over Alan not keeping her in the loop with matters regarding Randys wife and child, as well as Alan working out his issues with her in an early draft of his next novel. Hugo is overweight and wears a floral vest over his shirt and sports a fresh white carnation. Young man who stalks Ann Parker for weeks with the initial plan to have her fall in love with and marry him, all in order to have revenge on Judge Parker who sentenced him to several years in prison. The women who populated soap opera comic strips written by men represent fertile territory for a study of mens attitudes toward women in the first decades of womens liberation. By the end of a dangerous adventure, Donna narrowly misses being declared the worlds greatest belly dancer by the Secret Twelve and Justin proposes marriage to Donna. Jeep Carson was a precocious tomboy whose best friend was a somewhat less precocious everyboy named Bumps. 2/62-6/62. Harmony Mimi Doubleday. Clearly some powerful literary archetypes were at play. April Bower. 1963 Sandra Deere returns, entangled with gangster Max Sparrow. Dennis the Squirrel Passmore. to Sam Driver, hoping they will become law partners, but the two are only interested in sharing office space. Orphaned Neddy and Sophie Barton were taken under Abbeys wings and essentially adopted. Randy Parker brings home his new girl friend (a pathological liar, of course) who promptly tries to romance both Randy and Sam. Stanley Weckler. 12/54-3/55, 7/55-12/55, 4/56-7/56, 10/56, 1/57, 6/63. 1988 Abbeys cousin, itinerant painter David Delacourt, visits Spencer Farms. Decorated war hero and attorney who lost both his legs in Afghanistan but is able to walk with prosthetics. Alan Parker is now portrayed as something of a curmudgeon, nurtured by his optimistic and incredibly patient wife Katherine. The Judge has been largely supplanted by cocksure attorney Sam Driver and his beautiful girl friend/now wife Abbey Spencer. Hugo is overweight and wears a floral vest over his shirt which often sports a fresh white carnation. Judge Parker is an American soap opera-style comic strip created by Nicholas P. Dallis that first appeared on November 24, 1952. 4/10-10/10. Neddy, her sister Sophie and her grandfather were all squatting on Abbey Spencers ranch. Isaac Charles Parker served as federal judge for the Federal Court of the Western District of Arkansas in Fort Smith (Sebastian County). Georgia also tries to woo Sam from Abbey but ultimately realizes she cant win his heart. A good-looking man in his forties, the closest Cory gets to romance is a brief 2016 flirtation with Godiva Danube. Rocky Ledge. As a juvenile, Senna was arrested for shoplifting and vandalism, but not a single presence of the legal record after the age of 16. The trend had started way back in the early forties, when the melodramatic Apple Mary strip morphed into the Mary Worth feature known today. And while Rex Morgan was relatively young and single, Dallis decided to make Alan Parker, his new hero, somewhat older and a widower with two teen-aged children. Maxine Deverow, Deborah Smith and Amy. 9/08-1/09. Ultimately her disguise is discovered by Sam Driver, including her true target, Katherine Parker. All that changes when a sinkhole literally sinks her clothing factory, and Sophie is kidnapped. 8/00), 9/05-10/05, 2/06, 5/06-6/06, (ref. Bob McDuff tries to keep Anns interest. While kissing another guy who wonders what she sees in Parker, Sheila declares, I like squares! Keno is a rar e villain who escapes justice, skipping bail after his arrest. Do you know from what year the reprints are fromI know in the case of the 1956 Argo Rex Morgan and Mary Worth reprints, the actual stories are from a number of years earlier. It doesnt help he is involved in a UFO abductee cult headed up by the mysterious Seth. To be fair, to do so would surely have led to a massive cancellation of newspapers subscribing to the strip. Sam Driver and Abbey finally married on New Years Eve 1999, leaving Randy to carry the romantic intrigue of the comic strip, along with Neddy of course. 8/6/69-pr. 1980 Conwoman Jeannie Kelso and her brother hide out at Spencer Farms. He is portrayed as less handsome as the years go by, slender with a somewhat thin face. 8/54-11/54, 4/60-7/60, 10/62-11/62, 5/63-6/63, 10/63-11/63, (ref. Palmer turns out to be a con man and Katherine advises Ann that Dave Williams is a man that truly loves her. Honorable Isaac C. Parker, Judge of the United States Court for the Western District of Arkansas, died at his home in this city at 2.45 o'clock Tuesday morning, November 17, 1896. Lavendare wears a cumber-bun, is constantly fanning himself with an Asian fan, and eats opera cream chocolates. Gloria fought her way out of the ghetto to earn a college degree, then returned to help her others in need at Legal Aid. Last week it was revealed that Bret Blevins is the guest artist spelling Mike Manley on The Phantom comic strip while Mike fights his own battle with an undisclosed illness. The Gardia Brothers use Aprils trip to see him and get married to track his location. Rowland Sharon. But he cant touch his own toes. He has her boyfriend, golf instructor Gary Jaye, savagely beaten when he begins to suspect his scheme. A key employee of the branch office of the Legal Aid Society in a poorer, ethnic section of town, Gloria is a Latina who fought her way out of the ghetto to earn a college degree, then returned to help others like her at Legal Aid. April is woefully over qualified for the role at the office, being fluent in four languages and having completed a Masters thesis on the economics of the European Union. He has receding gray hair and protruding front teeth, hence his nickname that no one dares say to his face. During this time he becomes a consultant to Alan Parker, giving him espionage details for his next novel. There have been assassins, secret double agents. We are deeply saddened by what has happened in Turkey and Syria, where devastating earthquakes have killed thousands of people, and left many thousands in Seth serves as the debriefer, retrieving lost memories of the abductions through hypnosis. David is 32 and Abbey at this time is said to be 26. With 2009, readers might have assumed with a more youthful and dynamic Judge Parker now on the job, the focus might have turned even more to Randy. Glorias colorful sister, Alexis, appears in the narrative in 2001 to stir up trouble. Cedric Hart. Ann was in training to become a nursethere was a nursing character in every Dallis strip, a nod to his wife. She readily accepts her aunts romance with Judge Parker and is excited that the Judge will now officially be her father. Abbeys wealthy next door neighbor, Susan Adams47wants to further Davids career. As his business grew, Driver takes on on Parkers adult son and fellow attorney, Randy Parker in 1993. Three years later, Dallis crafts a more daring character named Mr. Hugo. Young shoe designer with whom Neddy falls in love in Paris and out of love once they return to the States. She becomes a good friend of Abbey and often speaks up for her interests and the interests of their relationship. Something of a schmoozer and charmer even as a teen, Randy is prone to wax philosophical about women to the amusement of his father.In 1953, he becomes entangled with a young club dancer named Kathy Valentine after returning from boarding school. "In His Own Words: Quotations of Judge Isaac C. Parker ," Fort Washington, PA: Eastern National, 2001. This is the story of how Judge Parker got his start in the comics and managed to lose his rather prestigious slot along the way. Neddys fashion business is literally swallowed up by a giant sinkhole. The General. Mother of Penelope, aunt to Sandra Deere, and sister to Katherine Cory Parker. Judge Parker. Muscle beaches on the West Coast were a common cruising spot for male homosexuals and the often straight men who serviced them for a price during the fifties and sixties. 5/09-2/10, 10/14-5/15, 8/15-9/15, 3/16-5/16, 9/16-10/16. Katherine loves Jeep and hopes to become her permanent guardian. Judge Parkers attractive new blonde secretary is actually a conwoman who uses her position to gain sensitive information that her criminal associate Charles Kasper is able to exploit. Confident and sometimes cocky, Driver is somewhat domesticated by his romance and later marriage to Abbey Spencer and his co-parenting of her adoptive daughters. Nicholas Dallis, a successful psychiatrist, had launched a medical comic strip, Rex Morgan, just a few years earlier. In 1961, Ann returns from Europe engaged to a man named Pepe who turns out to be a jewel thief. Brilliant if homely young man from India whom Sophie hired to upgrade her homework. Overweight narcotics smuggler who has many an affectation. David Delacourt. But Randy was at his best when making clever observations about the romantic foibles of his father and sister. 2002 Child genius Rowland Sharon attempts to romance Neddy her senior year. When Camille tries to throw Rus under the bus, Rus tells the police to investigate the death of Camilles last husband. 8/06-12/06. Casandra Canabar. Rocky is referenced, but not seen in 5/12 noting his seeking representation for a book he has written regarding his life with Godiva. Hank accompanies Neddy back to Spencer Farms when a troubled Sophie returns. [1] The strip's look and content were influenced by the work of Allen Saunders and Ken Ernst on Mary Worth. 8/28/73-2/15/74. (Time moves increasingly slowly within the Judge Parker narrative). When Judge Parker is apparently targeted for assassination, Delgado poses as a detective who investigates her only hit attempt. Beginning in December 1954 she is stalked by a psychopathic young man named Stanley Weckler. Unique three woman con artist team, Maxine and Deborah are beautiful young women, while Amy is an older con woman who poses as Deborahs mother. 7/55-12/55, 1/57-5/57, 1/61-3/61. 6/53-9/53, 8/54-7/55, 12/55-1/56, 9/56-1/57, 5/57-7/57, 11/57-4/58, 5/59-7/59, 12/59-1/60, 4/60, 7/61- 7/62, 6/63-11/63, 3/65-4/65, 5/66-9/66, 12/66-2/67, 2/68, 5/68-10/68, 10/30/93-4/94, 10/94-1/95, 5/9/95-12/95, 4/96-10/96, 11/97-6/98, 1/99-2/99, 12/99-1/00, 8/00-2/01 4/04-5/04, 1/05, 9/05-5/06, 8/06-10/06, 2/09-3/09, 1/10, 3/10, 8/10-10/10, 8/11-5/12, 11/12-6/14, 9/15-10/15, 1/16, 7/16, 6/17-10/17. Laura and Jeff Grace. 7/07-11/07. Palm Beach County Judge Bradley Harper, who in 2016 became the first Black judge to earn a spot on the county bench by election instead of appointment, on Thursday became a circuit . 2017 A troubled Sophie returns. This prompts a custody battle between her maternal aunt, Katherine Cory, whom she loves and trusts, and her paternal uncle, Tom Carson, whom she has never liked. In 1966, Randy becomes a devotee of Casandra Canabar. Randy proposes to April Bower in April of 2013 and after an extended cruise, Randy meets Aprils father and the two are married in the jungles of Mexico in April of 2014. Given that people of every age can read the comic strips, the funnies pages remain one of the most conservative mediums for telling a story. The Judge proposes to Katherine in March 1967, but Katherine delays accepting to give the Judge time to reconsider in less emotionally charged circumstances. 2016 Sophie disappears after a car crash. 10/30/93-4/94, 12/94, 6/95, 4/98, (ref. Casandra charms many a male acolyte, called brothers, including a youthful and still nave Randy Parker. 2007 Cedric Hart is Aunt Rachels hunky butler. Ezra agrees to have his family stay at the Spencer guest house only if he and the girls work for their room and board. 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