Saturday, June 4, 2011

Mysterious Days: 4 June


1940
The imaginative and bizarre writer George C. Chesbro is born in Washington, DC. He writes detective novels featuring Dr. Robert Feredrickson, an ex-circus performer, criminologist and dwarf, better known as Mongo.

His Beasts of Valhalla (1985) blends fantasy, computer technology, and Wagnerian and Tolien mythology with the traditional private eye style.



1949
On this day, in the comic strips, Dick Tracy finally marries Tess Truheart, after an 18-year engagement.

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