Ace Drummond
American comic strip
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Ace Drummond is an aviation comic strip scripted by Eddie Rickenbacker and illustrated by Clayton Knight . In its run, it followed aviator Ace Drummond on his adventures around the world.
Distributed by King Features Syndicate , the strip ran as a Sunday page from at least 1933 to 1939 (the final strip is dated 7 July 1939). According to Rickenbacker's autobiography, at its peak, the strip ran in 135 newspapers. [1]
In 1936, the strip was adapted into a movie serial . Rickenbacker was a key factor in the promotion of this strip through the formation of Eddie Rickenbacker's Junior Pilots Club, displaying the Ace Drummond characters on buttons distributed to listeners.
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References
- ↑ Rickenbacker, Edward (1967). Rickenbacker: An Autobiography . Prentice-Hall. p. 161
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