Sir Bagby was an American

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created by brothers Rick Hackney and Bill Hackney, who signed the strip "R & B Hackney." The setting was a medieval world filled with anachronisms and puns. (In that, it resembled Jack Kent's

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, distributed by the same syndicate.) The strip ran in a small number of US newspapers from 1957 to 1967, as well as in

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from 1960 to 1966. In 2022, Rick Norwood, editor of

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, purchased the copyright to Sir Bagby, so he could keep the strip in print.

Characters and story

The main characters are Sir Bagby, a knight, King Filbert I, II ("King Filbert I was my father. He built the business up so I decided to keep the name."), a wizard named Snerk, a jester named Solly, a playwright named Faro, and his assistant, Billingsgate.

Reprints

The only reprints of the strip have been in ''

''.

References

* Strickler, Dave. ''Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index.'' Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. .

External links

Sir Bagby at ComicStripFan

''Lambiek's Comiclopedia'' American comic strips Comics characters introduced in 1957 Gag-a-day comics Fictional knights Comics set in the Middle Ages 1957 comics debuts 1967 comics endings American comics characters {{comic-strip-stub