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	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Mike Nomad
		Hard-boiled Mike Nomad was only the most recent hero of the comic strip that bore his name.
		Mike, whose toughness and resourcefulness could be attributed to his commando training in World War II, was the creation of William Overgard, a former assistant to Milton Caniff on Steve Canyon.
		Steve Roper was eased out of the lead position in the strip by being allowed to grow older and retire (tho he never quite disappeared).
	www.toonopedia.com /nomad.htm (493 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Roper
		Roper (profession), a rope maker, or user of rope; for example, a cowboy engaged in tie down or trick roping.
		Roper previously served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, and as a White House Fellow, serving on the domestic policy staff.
		Roper Mountain Science Center is a resource for area students, and is home to the largest planetarium in South Carolina.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Roper (571 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Steve Roper
		Steve Roper is one of those comic strip characters who, like Nancy and Popeye, start out as supporting characters and wind up becoming the star.
		The advent of Steve Roper accelerated the trend.
		Meanwhile, Steve Roper's adventures as a news photographer (sometimes against bizarre, gruesome, Dick Tracy type villains) were coming to dominate the Big Chief Wahoo strip, with Wahoo himself reduced to a mere sidekick.
	www.toonopedia.com /roper.htm (463 words)

	Steve Roper and Mike Nomad
		Steve Roper and Mike Nomad was an American adventure comic strip that ran under various titles from November 1936 to December 26, 2004.
		In 1940, a photojournalist named Steve Roper was introduced and the stories became more serious, and by World War II, Roper was the lead in war-oriented adventure tales and Wahoo was the sidekick who was eventually written out.
		In 1969, the strip was retitled Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, a title it retained until its cancellation in 2004.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Steve_Roper_and_Mike_Nomad.php (488 words)

	Steve Roper and Mike Nomad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steve Roper and Mike Nomad was an American adventure comic strip that ran under various titles from November 1936 to December 26, 2004.
		Nomad gradually replaced Roper as the focus of the strip's adventures as Roper retreated to a desk job and later retirement.
		In 1969, the strip was retitled Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, a title it retained until its cancellation in 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Roper_and_Mike_Nomad (451 words)

	Roper at AllExperts
		Roper previously served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, and as a White House Fellow, serving on the domestic policy staff.
		The Roper Y-chromosome project shows that this family is related to, at least, some of the Virginia Roper family.
		The Roper Y-chromosome project shows that some of them came from the border area of Norfolk and Suffolk in England and that those are related to the Massachusetts Roper family.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/roper.htm (660 words)

	Steve Roper International Association Of Machinists And Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 2003. Teresa Leddon &a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By 1940 Steve Roper, a big-city news photographer, joined the cast, setting the Retitled Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper, the strip was further remodeled as Steve Roper and Wahoo.
		Steve roper marketing art direction director creative media, advertising belize canada consultant Steve Roper is a creative marketing professional and consultant with over 25 years.
		Steve Roper Camp 4 Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber Steve Roper Camp 4 Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber.
	www.99hosted.com /new-name60159.html (635 words)

	Adventure Outdoor Steves Adventure Great Outdoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steve Fossett - Steve Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) earned the rank of Eagle Scout of the Boy Scouts of America as a youth, is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America, and is a United States adventurer.
		Fossett made his fortune in American financial markets, but is best known for his three circumnavigations of the Earth, as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo airplane pilot.
		Steve Roper and Mike Nomad - Steve Roper and Mike Nomad was an American adventure comic strip that ran under various titles from November 1936 to December 26, 2004.
	www.fiba-slam.com /adventureoutdoorsteves.html (542 words)

	Did you Know...?: Steve Roper
		But apple-pie, all-American Steve Roper, a photojournalist known for catching villains on film, was a tough act to follow and a rather disjointed addition tot he comparatively light-hearted Big Chief strip.
		Before long, the name of the strip was changed to Steve Roper and Wahoo in 1945.
		Roper received fewer field assignments, while Nomad edged up to fill in the gap.
	scoop.diamondgalleries.com /scoop_article.asp?ai=4955&si=126 (235 words)

	MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: Steve Roper and Mike Nomad ride into the sunset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Beat remembers reading STEVE ROPER back in the Philadelphia Inquirer in her youth, and suspected then what she suspects now: Steve and Mike will be moving in together in Canada, if you get The Beat's drift.
		If had one wish during the comics last years it would have been that Mike Nomad would have gotten back together with Katherine Collins O'Hara, the nurse that he fell in live with after he had that motorcycle accident during the early '70s.
		I have been an avid fan of Steve Roper & Mike Nomad since 1977 and have managed to build a nice collection dating back to Nomad's debut in 1956.
	www.comicon.com /thebeat/2004/12/steve_roper_and_mike_nomad_rid.html (919 words)

	toledoblade.com -- Roper out, Fuzzy in on Blade comic pages
		After spending more than 60 years in America’s newspapers, the comic strip “Steve Roper and Mike Nomad” is stepping aside.
		Drawn for many of those years by a Toledo-area man, the strip known by some as simply “Steve Roper” has suffered declining sales recently and is being discontinued.
		Up until last year, “Steve Roper” was written by John Saunders, a Whitehouse man who died in November, 2003.
	toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041226/ART16/41226011/-1/ART (394 words)

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		John Saunders, writer of the “Mary Worth” syndicated comic strip, whose main character is appreciated and adored worldwide by fans for her sound advice and neighborly concern, died on Sat., Nov. 15, 2003.
		John Phillip Saunders was born Sept. 9, 1924, in Crawfordsville, Ind. A self-styled “academic nomad,” he attended Wabash College, Purdue University, University of Toledo and Northwestern University.
		In 1950, when Saunders was well into his own successful career as a broadcast journalist, his father, Allen, solicited his help with a sequence for “Steve Roper and Mike Nomad” that involved a fictional radio personality.
	www.kingfeatures.com /pressrm/rel_151_17_11_2003.htm (508 words)

	End Near for 'Steve Roper and Mike Nomad' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Steve Roper and Mike Nomad," a comic with roots that go back 68 years, is ending Dec. 26.The story strip currently runs "only in a couple of dozen newspapers," according to a King Features Syndicate spokesperson.
		What's now "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad" started in 1936 as a Western parody called "Big Chief Wahoo," according to King's Web site.
		Big-city news photographer Steve Roper later joined the cast -- and the comic was retitled "Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper," then "Steve Roper and Wahoo," th...
	www.editorandpublisher.com /eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1000720486 (163 words)

	toledoblade.com -- TV newsman wrote ‘Worth,’ ‘Roper’ strips
		John P. Saunders, one of the pioneers of television news broadcasting in Toledo who for many years was the writer of nationally syndicated comic strips "Mary Worth" and "Steve Roper," died Saturday at St. Luke’s Hospital.
		Saunders, who died in 1986 at the age of 88, had already been writing "Big Chief Wahoo," a forerunner of "Steve Roper," when he began the "Mary Worth" strip.
		"Mary Worth" and "Steve Roper," which was previously named "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad," are syndicated by North America Syndicate, Inc. "Mary Worth" is distributed to about 350 newspapers worldwide.
	www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031117/NEWS13/111170126 (857 words)

	Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection
		24-31 -- Steve Canyon and Patty Hearst kidnapping -- Data from R.C. Harvey.
		Steve Gerber Speaks about Working with Jack on Destroyer Duck.
		Call no.: PN6728.S765S3 1986 ----------------------------------------------------- Steve Roper and Wahoo, Book 2 / by Saunders and Woggon.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/srri/stes.htm (3891 words)

	Blog of Death: John Saunders
		John Phillip Saunders, who wrote the comic strips, "Mary Worth" and "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad," died on Nov. 15 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
		Saunders also took over his father's other comic strip, "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad," which appears in 90 newspapers.
		The Allen and John Saunders Collection of comic strips resides at the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000511.html (264 words)

	What's with the funny business? - The Boston Globe
		In the last "Bloom County" strip in 1995, the rakish character Steve Dallas was revealed to be gay.
		" 'Terry and the Pirates' and 'Steve Canyon,' both drawn by Milton Canniff, had stereotyped Chinese, plus the Dragon Lady, who was both sexy and a representative of the treacherous Orient, which was certainly racist.
		While strips come and go, newspaper comics pages as a whole are still popular with readers.
	www.boston.com /ae/media/articles/2004/12/06/whats_with_the_funny_business (1235 words)

	PCL LinkDump: No more Steve Roper & Mike Nomad
		The Beat reports that adventure strip Steve Roper and Mike Nomad ended its run yesterday after almost 70 (!) years and points to this and this article.
		Rest in peace guys, I fought crime with you alot when I was a kid.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	easydreamer.blogspot.com /2004/12/no-more-steve-roper-mike-nomad.html (98 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Steve Roper and Mike Nomad
		Initially distributed by Publishers Syndicate, it ended its 68-year run at King Features Syndicate.
		In 1969, the strip was retitled Steve Roper & Mike Nomad, a title it retained until its cancellation in 2004.
		Officially, Matera took over the writing until it was discontinued by the syndicate, although it was ghosted by Keith Brenner in the final years.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/The_Great_Gusto (485 words)

	R2: Good Grief! That Favorite Comic Strip Is Missing
		But when the paper later staged a "Survivor"-style contest to cut a dozen of its 53 comic-strip offerings to save a precious half-page of space in the weekday paper, more than 40,000 readers voted their passions.
		They lobbied successfully for comic comfort food like "Peanuts" and "For Better or For Worse," though other chestnuts like "Mary Worth" and "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad" faced a grimmer fate.
		But at The Morning News, Mike Peters, an editor who writes a regular column on comics, said he worried that his paper was squandering a crucial opportunity by letting a survey of current readers — more than half of them over 55 — wield the axe so disproportionately against newer strips.
	www.naa.org /r2/nyt04.html (1341 words)

	The Comics Reporter
		I'm glad someone finally mentioned this where I could link to it: Steve Roper and Mike Nomad have until the day after Christmas 2004 to get their affairs in order and solve any dangling cases.
		Not just Roper and Nomad -- the strip had earlier been fronted by Big Chief Wahoo, who took it over from The Great Gusto, making for perhaps the oddest pedigree in newspaper comics history.
		Others may know the strip for the work of the criminally underappreciated William Overgard, who in keeping with the spirit of his strip's many changes eventually quit the gig to do a feature about a talking gorilla named Rudy.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/steve_roper_and_mike_nomad_and_oblivion (242 words)

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		The area the settlers at Plymouth Rock settled in was practically empty.
		I grew up on Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, truck driver for "Proof" magazine, of which Steve Roper was the editor.
		Together or by turns, the two heroes ran into a lot of criminals, usually by accident, and exposed their evil schemes.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1101738748.comments.html (936 words)

	Tampa Bay Newspapers : Book Reviews
		Born in Dunedin, Earls lived in several other states before returning to Florida in 1984.
		He wrote locally for “RAD Magazine” and worked as a ghostwriter on the final year of the syndicated Steve Roper and Mike Nomad strip.
		The writer also created a benefit comic and paperback anthology called “The Sorrow” to raise money and awareness for the National Association to Protect Children.
	www.tbnweekly.com /editorial/local_entertainment/book_reviews/content_articles/011007_lebook-01.txt (820 words)

	Fran Matera Ebay Auction to Benefit ACTOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Golden Age Artist Puts Steve Roper and Mike Nomad Strips Up For Auction
		Steve Roper and Mike Nomad artist, Fran Matera, has put his original comic book strips up for auction on www.eBay.com.
		Matera started doing comics in the form of strips and comic books during World War II.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/105598320077760,print.htm (195 words)

	News, Rants, and Other Stuff » Steve Roper & Mike Nomad
		News, Rants, and Other Stuff » Steve Roper & Mike Nomad
		I’ve added another piece to the gallery page for the newspaper strip “Steve Roper & Mike Nomad“.
		It’s a great Sunday done by Fran Matera and John Saunders in 1985, with Mike (under cover as “Jasper”) taking a beating from the dad of a couple of cute girls (with a couple of distant but nice good-girl shots of them too!); go and check it out!
	comicstripfan.com /blog/?p=370 (442 words)

	Comic Strips
		Doodles by by Steve Sack and Craig MacIntosh.
		This is an awesome site that really pushes beyond the comic strip itself.
		Steve Roper and Mike Nomad by John Saunders and Fran Matera.
	www.stus.com /3majors.htm (323 words)

	BW Review: TCJ #266
		Next big one coming up is the 4th of July - so if you're an old artist, you'd better duck!
		End of Steve Roper and Mike Nomad newspaper adventure strips as of Dec. 26 (one day after Christmas) of last year.
		No wonder DC and Marvel kicked their butts for all those years.
	www.geocities.com /toonpro/text/review_tcj266.html (1057 words)

	ONLiNE-COMiX
		DOWN TO EARTH BY GAViN CHAFiN & STEVE WOOD..........MON.
		MOTHER GOOSE & GRiMM BY MiKE PETERS...& HiS
		STEVE ROPER & MiKE NOMAD BY SAUNDERS & MATERA..........
	www.tcfb.com /comix/day.htm (762 words)

	Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin
		Features interviews with Swampy's creators Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, plus Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch, and even a discussion of who came first, Swampy or Man-Thing.
		We've gotta have one of those around the back room of the store somewhere....
		#200 (nice to see Steve Dillon on the book again, even if just for this special issue; comic now has the logo that emphasizes "Constantine," which will probably disappear once the
	progressiveruin.com /2004_09_26_archive.html (2714 words)

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