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| | Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Heathcliff |
 | | Comics' first realistically self-centered pet cat protagonist was created by cartoonist George Gately Gallagher, who, to avoid confusion with his older brother John, also a successful cartoonist, dropped his last name in signing his work. |
 | | It was Gately's second syndicated comic the first, The Chicago Tribune Syndicate's Hapless Harry (about a perpetual victim along the lines of H.T. Webster's Caspar Milquetoast or Art Sansom's The Born Loser) didn't make it. |
 | | Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats (the latter, again, being the second of two segments) ran 65 episodes, which debuted in syndication during September, 1984. |
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