''Aggie Mack'' was a newspaper comic strip about a teenage girl. Created by Hal Rasmusson, it was distributed by the

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beginning on September 2, 1946, and concluding on January 9, 1972. It had a 26-year run, with a title change to ''Aggie'' during the final six years.

Publication history

When Rasmusson was in ill health, the series was taken over by Roy L. Fox, starting with the strip dated January 8, 1962; Rasmusson died later that year. In 1966, the title was shortened to ''Aggie''. The final episode of the strip was published on January 9, 1972.Hal Rasmusson
at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Beginning in 1947, the strip was very popular in

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where it was published in the ''Fillette'' magazine. In 1960, Gérard Alexandre (who used the pseudonym AL.G.) created an all-French version of the strip and titled it ''Aggie''.

Characters and story

The central figure was a blonde named Aggie (a nickname based on her first name Agnes). Aggie was raised by her father's second wife, who favored her own daughter, Mona, a few years older than Aggie. Comics historian

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''Aggie'' was adapted to comic books by Superior Comics, which published eight issues between January 1948 and August 1949. In 1962,

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adapted ''Aggie'' into an issue of their ''

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