The Captain and the Kids

A short-lived revival of Rudolph Dirks’ classic comic strip, this three-issue series from United Feature Syndicate brought the anarchic humor of the Captain and his mischievous charges back to newsstands in 1948. Written and drawn entirely by Dirks himself, it stands as a late-career return to the characters he originated decades earlier. Though brief, the series is a notable footnote for fans of early newspaper comics, preserving the slapstick energy that made the strip a pioneer of the form.