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Ham Fisher
American comic strip writer and cartoonist
Hammond Edward "Ham" Fisher (September 24, [some sources indicate ] – December 27, ) was an American comic strip writer and cartoonist.
He is best known for his long, popular run on Joe Palooka, which was launched in and ranked as one of the top five newspaper comics strips for several years.
Biography
Early life and education
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Ham Fisher dropped out of school at the age of 16 to work as a brush peddler and truck driver before finding employment as a reporter and ad salesman for the Wilkes-Barre Record and then moving on to a job with the New York Daily News.
Joe Palooka
In , Fisher put together a sample package of Joe Palooka (then titled Joe the Dumbbell) but was unable to attract interest.
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By , he was working as a traveling strip salesman for the McNaught Syndicate. However, Fisher also hawked his own unpublished, unsold strip.
In , after he secured over 20 sale