The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 22

C4 Friday, January 5, 1968 HONOLULU ADVERTISER Flash for Comic Fans: Rip Kirby Plans Caper in the Islands By GENE HUNTER Advertiser Staff Writer solving cases in Hawaii and spent the past 10 days in Ha-the South Pacific. waii seeking material for VroH Dirlrpnsnn. a Rfl- new RiD Kirbv adventures. Rip Kirby, The Advertis- yeaf 0jd New Yorker who He came here after a trip er's popular comic strip pri- has written the strip for which'took him to Australia, to HptPPtivP soon will be King Features since 1952, Hong Kong and Guam. UIV 7 As a police reporter for Chicago's City News Bureau he covered the St.

Valentine's Day massacre of 1929 and later succeeded Ben. Hecht as the Chicago Daily News' "picture chaser." (A "picture chaser" in a city where murder is a daily front page item is a reporter who is sent to homes for photographs of the victims or sometimes of the suspects. Chicago "picture chasers" of the 1920s and 1930s didn't let locked doors prevent them from coming back with the photograph for which they were sent, Dickenson said.) Dickenson later worked in He and his wife, Peggy, are scheduled to leave today for their home in Chappa-qua, N.Y., about 30 miles north of New York City. This was their first Pacific visit. Dickenson has lived close to crime for almost 40 years.

We'll gladly dye for you shoes, purses, sandals, etc. THE GOBBLER Al Moan Center, Phase II Street Level, mania the Labor Day Weekend of 1956 in his hometown of Westport, Conn. Fellow Westport artist John Prentice took over the drawing of Rip Kirby and Dickenson continued as the writer. Kirby wears glasses, but there his resemblance to the author stops. "Kirby is all the things I wish I were," Dickenson said, sipping a beer at the Columbia Inn yesterday.

"He's tall, dark, strong and smart and can do anything if he has to. "I don't know how tall Kirby is. I guess he's roughly about six feet, wouldn't you say? He's somewhere in his mid-30s, I suppose." Dickenson, nearing 60, is 5-feet-8 with gray hair which is growing sparse at the temples. Dickenson and Prentice rarely see each other. Dickenson writes the Rip Kirby scripts a week at a time and mails them to the artist in Connecticut.

The continuity follows the form of a motion picture script, with Dickenson writing the dialogue and describing the scene for the artist to draw. The scripts are written about 10 weeks ahead of the strip's publication. Dickenson travels frequently, because Rip Kirby does. "For Kirby's foreign adventures, it's really imperative that I go there before he does," the author said. Rip Kirby appears in 463 newspapers around the world and is translated into numerous languages, including Chinese for publication in Hong Kong, and Japanese.

speaks of Kirby as a friend, rather than as a fictional creation. "As far as anybody knows he has some money somewhere, but he does charge a reasonable fee for his services," Dickenson said of his detective. "But he'll take a case for nothing for the sheer pleasure of combatting crime particularly if there is a pretty girl involved. "When I get Rip to Hawaii, you can be sure there'll be a girl an Island girl. They sure are pretty here, aren't they?" 'f DICKENSON The dual chores of writing the story line and drawing the strip caused Raymond to seek a writer, and Dickenson began working with the artist in 1952.

Raymond was killed in an automobile accident during Los Angeles covering the Winnie Ruth Judd double-murder in the trunk case, in Oklahoma helping chase bandit Pretty Boy Floyd, in Wisconsin trailing bank robber John Dillinger and in Newark, N.J., keeping a death watch on fatally wounded gangster Dutch Schultz. But Chicago was his favorite crime town. "Chicago during the Prohibition era was pretty good background KHVH-TV 0 9 KGMB-TV KHON-TV CD KHET-ETV CD CO KIKU-TV CO COLOR TELECAST ICAPTAIN HONOLULU'S FAVORITES (6:45) 7 :30 ASTRO BOY :00) INSIGHT (C 4:10) (C SUNRISE SEMESTER CHECKERS POGO DICK VAN DYKE :00 PLAYHOUSE PEOPLE'S CHOICE 8 svstem cacio :30 design pout cadovius Windward Land Sought As Park Site The City has asked the TREASURE ISLE SECRET STORM ROMPER ROOM :00 9 CONCENTRATION :30 (C 9:55) MOVIE: "MRS. MIKE" PERSONALITY HOW'S YOUR :00 possible with this flexible system of rails and parts. Imported from Denmark and notable for its fine detailing in teak or walnut with a hand rubbed oil finish.

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After 10 years as a police reporter, Dickenson joined King Features in 1938 as a writer and editor. Rip (real name Remington) Kirby is an athlete intellectual who was created 22 years ago by comic strip artist Alex Raymond. Raymond previously had created Flash Gordon, then quit that strip to join the Marine Corps during World War II. He began Kirby in 1946. THE FUGITIVE JEOPARDY EYE GUESS :00 :30 11 NEWS (11:55) TODAY IN HAWAII :00 State to release a parcel of land near the Kahaluu Cutoff Road and Keaahala Road for development of a district park.

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