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I began following Gasoline Alley more than 50 years ago, and about 42 years ago looked up old newspapers in the NY public library to see some of the earlier stories. With reprints of early stories in well received hard covers, with comic book reprints of some 30s Gasoline Alley stories in comic books such as Popular Comics available for reading at the Digital Comic Museum website, with free or paid subscription to internet archives of some newspapers e.g, Chicago tribune that carried (pthe strip in its first 70 years available and with the most recent 17 years available on this website, this great work of fiction is more accessible than in a long time. Many days of Gasoline Alley are told realistically; other days, going back to the 1930s, are fantasy. Some story payoffs, take 80 years, such as Phyllis' connection to Skeezix' natural mother. Some, such as what happened to the Vietnam mom whose baby was delivered by Chipper during his military service, were told earlier this year.
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Adam and his twin sister Eve were born in the strip in 1960. I read once that Perry, then scripting and drawing the Sunday section Gasoline Alley, suggested they be added to the already large cast so the strip would have Wallet kids in it throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s. After Adam as an adult came back from serving in the Peace Corps with his Pacific Islander wife, a memorable story arc saw Nina and Skeezix work out an agreement with Adam for Adam and his wife to revive the Clock farm Nina had inherited after her parents’ deaths.