
I didn’t realize this until recently, but the Pam Grier movie FRIDAY FOSTER came from a comic strip. It ran from 1970-1974 and was the first syndicated comic with an African-American woman in the lead. It was created by a journeyman writer named Jim Lawrence who also wrote for radio shows such as Green Hornet and comic strips based on James Bond and Dallas (!). The artist was a Spaniard named Jorge Longarón until the last year, when it was taken over by Gray Morrow, co-creator of MAN THING.
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Monday, July 16th, 2012Tags: Arthur Marks, blaxploitation, Carl Weathers, Eartha Kitt, Godfrey Cambridge, Jim Backus, Julius Harris, Pam Grier, Paul Benjamin, Scatman Crothers, Yaphet Kotto
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