Anybody else remember "Marty Moran, Headline Hunter"? Appreciation 2021
I first read about him in [B][I]Detective Comics #445[/I][/B] (February-March 1975), back when DC was reprinting a lot of their older material.
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[I][FONT=Times New Roman]To be continued . . . [/FONT][/I][/SIZE]
Now, this story was a reprint that originally appeared back in 1950, but back then it didn't feature "[I][FONT=Times New Roman]Marty Moran[/FONT][/I]".
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[B][FONT=Century Gothic]Big Town[/FONT][/B] was actually a radio program in the U.S. that began airing back in the late 1930s, and before it ended it's run on radio in 1952, it was also a television program that ran for several years. The DC comic book based on the radio & TV show lasted for 50 issues.
Why the reprinted story made so many changes from how it originally ran, I don't know. I can only guess that even though the TV show hadn't aired new episodes in well over a decade at that time, there were still issues with the licensing agreement regarding the names involved[SIZE=1] (but probably not with the story itself nor the artwork)[/SIZE].
