(Referenced 3/25/11-4/11), 10/11-11/11, x/xx-x/xx, 7/16-11/16, 1/17. In 1999, Randy is best man at Sam Drivers wedding to Abbey Spencer. Her true occupation, however, was not revealed until a new artist took over who could portray her with all the sexiness any spy worth their stripe deserves. But in an era where homosexuality was rarely even hinted at, I felt these stories were worth highlighting as examples of how such themes were treated. When last seen, Raju is managing the diets of collegiate wrestlers. 5/93-10/93, 12/97-6/98, 5/04-1/05, 9/05, 12/06-2/07, 5/07, referenced only 2/13. With 2011, Katherine is once again featured on a fairly regular basis. But Delgado resurfaces when she is hired to kill Randy Parker. Randy Parkers unscrupulous political opponent for the judgeship. While he is ultimately found guilty, the jury advises that there be no death penality. Judge Parkers loyal and gray-haired secretary. Three years later, Dallis crafts a more daring character named Mr. Hugo. Rocky Ledge. The book is ultimately published to significant success and, by 2012, Driver is called upon to assist in making arrangements for its development into a movie. The guitar playing nephew of Abby Spencers recently departed childhood governess, Johnny at 28 is aimless but seemingly charming, having earned Abbys good feelings for having taken good care of Aunt Martha. It emerges that Kane embezzeled $200,000 from his aunt and kill Abbeys maid, Marie, to keep that quiet. Not only does the Judge rarely take center stage thereafter, Drivers Legal Aid job is soon forgotten. That is the classic comic strip created in 1952 that follows the life of small-town Judge Alan Parker and his family. 1973 Betsy Fremont, a former love of Sams, schemes her way back into his life. This expanse of land, the final destination of the Trail of Tears, had once been preserved for tribes forcibly "removed" from eastern North America. Palmer hopes to marry Abbey, but Maries suspicions about Palmer and Kiki as well as Kikis jealousy help undo their scheme. 9/62-1/63, 5/63-12/63. Katherine is 35 when she meets Alan and is a career woman of unspecified type and a widow who lost her husband in the service two years previously. Unseen for years, Mimi breaks up with Randy when he refuses to join Eon as a condition for their marriage. Horace Riley. Shes adopted by aunt Katherine Cory, who wins Alans heart. 6/64-10/64. No mention is made of her being a relative of the Parkers cook. They decide to trail April Bower to her gun runner father in Mexico. Glorias glamorous older sister who is drawn to wealthy men, most recently a suave Argentine businessman named Sergio Francesco who has gotten in trouble with dangerous men. 1997 Theresa Delgado tries to assassinate Katherine Parker. Casandra Canabar. Sam and Abbeys chemistry is immediate and the comic strip is never quite the same again. Clearly some powerful literary archetypes were at play. Judge Parker introduces D.B. 9/08-1/09. Katherine Cory Parker. Last week it was revealed that Bret Blevins is the guest artist spelling Mike Manley on The Phantom comic strip while Mike fights his own battle with an undisclosed illness. It is a serial strip starring a no-nonsense, upstanding lawyer who stoically handles drama and suspense. As his business grew, Driver takes on on Parkers adult son and fellow attorney, Randy Parker in 1993. In 1993, Abbey becomes the guardian of two girls, Neddy and Sophie Barton, who had been squatting on the grounds of her ranch. April admits to Randy that she is a spy in July 2013. She is a career woman of unspecified type and a widow who lost her husband in the service two years previously. 11/52-9/69, 1/70-2/70, 9/70-3/71, 9/71-2/72, 5/72-8/72, 11/72, 3/73-11/73, 2/74-4/74, 6/74-7/74, 1/76, 2/77-4/77, 3/82-4/82, 1/87-2/87, 3/85-9/85, 6/92, 5/93, 7/93, 11/93-12/93, 5/97-9/97, (referenced 1/99), 12/99-1/00, 8/00-1/01, 4/06, 6/06-7/06, 11/06, 6/08-7/08, 2/09-3/09, 12/12-4/14, 9/16-1/17, 6/17-10/17. The narrative highlights Jeffs denial and then minimization of Lauras drinking problem. Max Sparrow. The trend had started way back in the early forties, when the melodramatic Apple Mary strip morphed into the Mary Worth feature known today. Introduction. The two marry on February 11, 1968. Judge Parker declares his attention to retire after being held hostage in 2000-01 but doesnt actually do so until 2009. In 2005, Neddy learns from Marks father that his son has married. After months of not knowing her fate, in 2017 Randy finally gets to meet and raise his daughter, even as April is falsely imprisoned for crimes she did not commit. When Judge Parker is apparently targeted for assassination, Delgado poses as a detective who investigates her only hit attempt. Abbey has a big heart and is frequently seen helping those in need. Fey con artist who is the brains behind Stan Jaspers Health Club, which pushes his harmless revitalization pills. In 2017, Katherine Parker moves out of the Parker household, angry at how Alan keeps things from her. As a fan, its particularly helpful since Ive had a lot of trouble tracking down the older strips. Handsome young man who seeks an engineering position at Spencer Farms without a single reference. April is woefully over qualified for the role at the office, being fluent in four languages and having completed a Masters thesis on the economics of the European Union. Enter Rocky and Godiva. With the help of Drivers investigations, it emerges that Dixie murdered her lover, Dewey Cheatham, coincidentally the intended publisher of Alan Parkers novel. It emerges that Eric has been blackmailed into becoming part of a smuggling operation. He returns, apparently having forgiven his old friend but actually tries to break up his marriage. Randy, his parents, and April travel to the jungles of Mexico by cruise ship to join Aprils fatherAbbot Bowerto get married. Judge Parker should be more realistic. 1978 Georgia Kingston, the estate of her dead husband in question, seeks Sams help. Neddy, her sister Sophie and her grandfather were all squatting on Abbey Spencers ranch. Jeep Carson was a precocious tomboy whose best friend was a somewhat less precocious everyboy named Bumps. He has freckles and favors Asian pieces of art. And talking about dimes, you didnt have two to rub together when I picked you up off the beach.. A single father of two, Davey and Chuck, addicted to gambling. A financial consultant, Pres soon shifts his focus on Katherine Cory, when he learns of her oversight of Jeeps quarter million trust fund. In 1973, Betsy Fremont stays with the Parkers. The two marry on February 11, 1968. In the other story, Dallis also revisits old territory and has Katherine have reason to suspect that the Judge might have been flirting with an affair with his secretary. Martha reappears in the narrative in 1962 with the arrival of her scheming niece, Sandra Deere. Randy disappears from the narrative shortly after his fathers marriage to Katherine Cory in 1968. Abbey Spencer has had two maids named Marie, both with dark hair. Slick if short New York gangster who has considerable success charming the ladies, despite an obvious lack of breeding. 2005 Glorias in jail in Mexico.Horace mentors Randy, who is falling for April. Mimi is the daughter of E. Tanner Doubleday, the recently deceased founder of Eon, a multi-million dollar Scientology like cult. 1971 Jeep returns from boarding school in love. 1977 Alans secretary Carla Dane is crooked. 1987 Abbey is romanced by handsome Homer Baroot, secretly a cocaine smuggler. Something of a schmoozer and charmer even as a teen, Randy is prone to wax philosophical about women to the amusement of his father.In 1953, he becomes entangled with a young club dancer named Kathy Valentine after returning from boarding school. But as soon as that case is wrapped up, Gloria tells Sam that wealthy heiress Abbey Spencer wants to get a hold of him. She returns home two years later with an aspiring designer in tow. Lu Ann of Apartment 3-G was sweet and naive, in some ways like Abbey in Judge Parker. In 1961, Ann returns from Europe engaged to a man named Pepe who turns out to be a jewel thief. 2004 Randy Parker meets April Bower. But Hugo wont forgive or forget and kills Jasper with a blow to the head. The Gardia Brothers use Aprils trip to see him and get married to track his location. This one takes place in the "Judge Parker" universe. When Ann is only frightened and turned off by his advances, he ends up holding her hostage in her own home, and later Judge Parker as well. An elderly legend of the stage, Shore becomes infatuated with Abbey when she arranges his appearance for a fundraisr and soon has died his hair to appear younger. Also agree with Marciulianos work so far on the strip. A number of times they mention that she was her cousinso Abbey does not have a second half-sister. Paul Planchard. One featured the return of a grown-up Jeep Carson. As for the Judge Parker comic strip, his wife Katherine has largely been involved in domestic and romantic storylines, with no apparent career or interests of her own despite not having minor children to raise after Jeep reaches maturity. No, not that one. Subsequently, David learns he has inherited a huge sum of money from fathera inveterate gambler who had finally hit it big without Davids knowledge. Wellington Marks. 1952 Ann Parker, the Judges daughter, gets dangerously involved in one his cases. But when Hugo suggests replacing Jaspers image on his pill bottles with Judge Parkers new secretary, Bonnie Heath, Jasper gets resentful. Theresa Delgado. Reggie and Celeste Black. One of the most gripping and well written narratives was the court proceedings against the mentally unstable man who had abducted Anne. Enraged by the insults, Jasper begins to strangle Hugo until he snaps out of it. Cedric always works for very wealthy clients and there appears to be far more to his story than appears on the surface. Marie Arnold 4/71-7/71. Marie. Kindly grandfather of Neddy and Sophie, who takes care of the girls after the death of their father and then their mother. Carla Dane. 2/77-6/77. The women who populated soap opera comic strips written by men represent fertile territory for a study of mens attitudes toward women in the first decades of womens liberation. Perhaps hes still married to Viki. . In 2016, Randy announces that April is pregnant and soon afterwards announces she has disappeared during what was to beher final mission. 5/9/95-10/95, 11/20/97-6/98, 9/05-10/05, 8/06-10/06. 1961 Wellington and Jeep thwart a gang. 2013 The elder Parkers join Randy and April on a cruise ship headed to their wedding. Penelope Jeep Carson. April Bower. Horace comes out of the encounter unscathed, unless you count him getting to married to one of the cult devotees, Alpha. But what happened in the Judge Parker comic strip was quicker. Needing to get away from the cloud overhanging her family, Neddy flees with Hank to Alaska. Dixie Julep. 4/1/15-9/19/75. While generally demanding, Passmore is taken by D. B. Clarks assertiveness and seeks her legal representation when his men get in trouble. Gloria fought her way out of the ghetto to earn a college degree, then returned to help her others in need at Legal Aid. Shannon is also quickly drawn to Sams sympathetic secretary, Gloria Sanchez, and she to him. By 2016, Marie has a steady boy friend with the unlikely name of Roy Rogers. 1/92-6/92, 1/96-4/96, 5/04-10/14, 6/07-11/07. Palmer disappears not long after, declaring, I always know when to leave a place before Im thrown out. 10/89-5/90. 5/15-2/17, 10/17. Sams attractive, long-time Latina secretary who is a key employee of the branch office of the Legal Aid Society in a poorer, ethnic section of town. Gloria and Alexis childhood is now portrayed as one of privilege, growing up as the daughters of a Panamanian general who attended American schools, learning four languages in the process. Handsome blond-haired attorney just starting out on his practice. He sentenced 160 people to death, including four . In financial trouble, Abbey becomes the St. James business partner. The original Judge Parker, a fit widower in his middle forties, as the narrative begins. Jeep was very much in love with a fellow who had gotten himself involved with some very bad men. His campaign is ultimately undone by his vicious, alcoholic wife. Attorney for Caesar, Rusty butts head with Sam Driver over a scheme to buy to a winery which, unknown to its owners, siblings Keith and Trudi St. James, rest on top of a vast water table. 6/95-9/95. On the plump side, balding with a bushy mustache, Riley also is a power player in politics. 3/10), 8/10-10/10, 10/11-4/12, 3/13-6/14, (Aprils disappearance referenced 6/16-7/16), 12/16, 7/17-10/17+. Rex Morgans nurse, June Gale was even more long-suffering than Abbey Spencer in terms of putting up with far more than they should have to from their male romantic interests. The more assertive of the girls in Apartment 3-G, Margo McGee was also the most ill-tempered and foolish. 1/27/88-7/27/88. It falls on Sam to tell Abbey in 1992 that while they may be good friends, they are poor business people. 12/2/86-8/7/87. I read (browsed may be a better word) Judge Parker for many years; to take a glance and move on was the norm. Abbey Spencer. Sandra Deere tries to snag the Judge. 1974 Karl Wakeman schemes. It doesnt help he is involved in a UFO abductee cult headed up by the mysterious Seth. It was the fifties, after all, and someone may have suggested the Judges family was skewing a little old when most families in the post-War baby boom had younger kids. While kissing another guy who wonders what she sees in Parker, Sheila declares, I like squares! His court was unique in the fact that he had jurisdiction over all of Indian Territory, covering over 74,000 square miles. He tried 13,490 cases, with 9,454 of them resulting in guilty pleas or convictions. Rachels hopes of rekindling their romance are dashed when he gets back together with Alpha. He has receding gray hair and protruding front teeth, hence his nickname that no one dares say to his face. 1965 Mr. B and henchman Swish, then Maxine Deverows female cons vex Sam. Unseen since 1968, he returned in 1993 with a law degree and not long after became Sam Drivers partner. Founder of the United Planets, a bogus advocacy group for supposed alien abductees. Planchard uses his extraordinary powers to control the will of young woman to his financial advantage, making his first mistake in trying to marry one of Ann Parkers best friends. Francesco Marchiuliano and Judge Mike Manley Parker on March 24, 2021. Decides in the end that fellow child genius Sophie might be more his speed. Yelich is handsome with prematurely gray hair and appears to be in his forties. Largo served in the war with Alan Parker and later blamed Parker for breaking up his marriage. 6/63-12/63. 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