By the 1980s, the Judge could disappear from the narrative for a couple years at a time and was only prominently featured twice between 1974 and 1993. 1997 Theresa Delgado tries to assassinate Katherine Parker. He wears a cumberbun, a string tie, is constantly fanning himself with an Asian fan, and eats opera cream chocolates. Casandra Canabar. Abbott Bower. Wealthy farmer and owner of Riley Amalgamated, Horace T. Riley first came into Randy Parkers orbit when he seeks his help against his nephew, who is trying to prove him incompetent and have him committed. New Marie 6/77-present. 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. Overweight narcotics smuggler who has many an affectation. Bumps is definitely a boys boy and so feels some rivalry with his bookish cousin, Wellington Marks. Their schemes are uncovered when they attempt an unsuccessful jewel heist. 3/71-9/71. A scheming would-be actress and trouble-making niece of Martha Carson, Sandra blows into town deciding to model as a break. He doesnt respond well when she says she isnt ready to marry. 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. She blithely states that age is irrelevant until her father becomes infatuated with Ames daughter. Rocky and Godiva exit. 1952 Ann Parker, the Judges daughter, gets dangerously involved in one his cases. Wealthy and strong-willed resident of Spencer Farms, a beautiful ranch the Spencer family has overseen for generations. Also called Lila Trimble in a later narrative. This according to Judge Parker himself, when Sam Driver asks. With Woody Wilsons retirement as only the second writer of Judge Parker in 2016, some dramatic changes were made in the narrative, the repercussions of which are still being felt. Younger sister of Neddy, Sophie initially walks with a crutch due to injury that bankrupted her grandfather, Ezra. 9/95, 5/96-10/96, 8/01,7/02-11/02, 6/03, 10/03, 11/03-3/04, 7/09, 10/09, 12/09-2/10, 8/11, 12/11-1/12. Thereafter, Cory is mostly shown helping Abbeys female guests on horseback or updating Neddy on his sons romantic foibles. She returns home two years later with an aspiring designer in tow. 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. He is taking this down a Sally Forth kind of path, with comedy/comic overtones. 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. One suspects readers had written in wondering whatever happened to her. Sandra returns not long after, infatuated with a New York gangster named Max Sparrow. But when Hugo suggests replacing Jaspers image on his pill bottles with Judge Parkers new secretary, Bonnie Heath, Jasper gets resentful. 2 Pardoned by the President. Katherine loves Jeep and hopes to become her permanent guardian. Gloria Sanchez. 2012 Avery Blackstone plans to film the movie adaptation of Alans novel. Katherine Cory Parker. Palmer hopes to marry Abbey, but Maries suspicions about Palmer and Kiki as well as Kikis jealousy help undo their scheme. Alan B. 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. 8/28/73-2/15/74. Sandra Deere tries to snag the Judge. Randy is not seen in the narrative from 1969 until 1993, when he introduces his parents to Mimi Doubleday, his new fiance. 2001 Glorias wealthy older sister Alexis makes the scene. He served as a United States representative from Missouri and was appointed as the first United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, which also had jurisdiction over Indian Territory. As such he becomes entangled in the schemes of the conman, Mr. Hugo. In this instance, they attempt to con a young mans mother to pay for their silence regarding an assault on Deborah that never happened. He charms Sandra Deare into assisting him in various schemes, ultimately escaping consequences when Sandra refusal to testify against him results in a jury finding him not guilty on an attempted murder charge. Unfortunately he has a girl friend, a snooty and aggressive bad girl named Honey Ballenger. Abbey Spencer has had two maids named Marie, both with dark hair. Sams secretary Gloria sees what shes up to, but Sam is blind to her maneuvers. In late 2011 he suspects April Bower of being involved in a murder and finds a large numbr of guns in her home. In actuality, Baroot thinks the highly wooded Spencer Farms would be the perfect front for his cocaine smuggling business. Another of Abbeys cousins, a financially struggling though talented painter comes to visit Abbey after the death of his father. He has freckles and favors Asian pieces of art. 2:54. Founder of the United Planets, a bogus advocacy group for supposed alien abductees. Fully recovered, Jeep and Wellington undo the schemes of a criminal gang in 1961. As a fan, its particularly helpful since Ive had a lot of trouble tracking down the older strips. 3/67-8/67, 11/67-1/68. One featured the return of a grown-up Jeep Carson. The end was peaceful, and the statesman, jurist and beloved citizen drew his last breath surrounded by his loving family and friends. 1973 Betsy Fremont, a former love of Sams, schemes her way back into his life. Sophie's father Michael and his wife Kourtney sat down with DailyMail.com for an exclusive interview before the judge's decision where they said they are wracked with guilt over the alleged abuse Seriously, get out of here and come back when you've seen Joker and can understand how perfect this reference . Ezra is forced to sell their house to pay for Sophies medical bills. Bumps and Wellington would largely disappear from the narrative. 12/2/86-8/7/87. Giving up his business partnership with Sam Driver after his election victory, Randy is sworn in by his father during Alans retirement party in February, 2009. The Judge proposes to Katherine in March 1967, but Katherine delays accepting to give the Judge time to reconsider in less emotionally charged circumstances. COMPANY. It's been kind of crazy in recent years since the current team took over. IMO. Alan Parker is now portrayed as something of a curmudgeon, nurtured by his optimistic and incredibly patient wife Katherine. 1985 Katherine suspects the Judge of an affair with Wendy Savern, his new secretary. She readily accepts her aunts romance with Judge Parker and is excited that the Judge will now officially be her father. The original Judge Parker, a fit widower in his middle forties, as the narrative begins. Ann rightfully declares that Preston is incapable of loving any woman when Dave Williams helps her realize his deceptions. 3/12, 3/13, 7/13, 5/17, others. 1960 Jeep is afraid of housekeeper Nadja who tries to destroy Dori Carsons marriage. Sophie is kidnapped and missing for months. Clark. She often finds herself in trouble, and has poor taste in men. These two stories were the only Judge Parker stories to tread on this territory and I dont want to suggest these themes were central to Dallis writing. Abbeys oldest friend is Trudi St. James. The two marry on February 11, 1968. 3/28/82-12/3/82. In 2005, in the longest extended narrative centering on Sams legal secretary, Gloria is arrested on trumped up illegal firearm possession. He no longer tries to romance Abbey. 1979 Orphaned Patty Modesto falls in love with painter Ben Castle. The father of organized crime in the state, per Sam Driver, Passmore seeks the legal services of D.B. Homer Baroot. At some point I may try to make a broader analysis of Nicholas Dallis treatment of women in all three of his strips. In 2016, Randy announces that April is pregnant and soon afterwards announces she has disappeared during what was to beher final mission. Horace Riley. Comments on The Phantom page suggest that Sunday Phantom artist Jeff Weigel is now doing the dailies. 6/14/74-9/21/74. Marla arrives with her son, Bumps, and begins work as a school teacher, briefly teaching Randy who is concerned over a possible romance with his father. 11/92-8/16, 12/16-6/17. See past each isolated panel and discover the real Judge Parker. But Carl is seriously ill, barely conscious, cared for by a muscular and handsome aid named Rus. Paula Slade runs an adoption scam. Hinting at a perverse element in a villain, if done with subtlety, however, was fair game. In 2005, Riley suggested that Randy run for his fathers spot on the bench as word as gotten out that Alan Parker would be retiring soon. This long-running subplot doesnt pay off until Randy finally takes his retiring fathers spot on the bench in 2009. Handsome and highly intelligent high school musician who Sophie has a bad crush on. By the 1980s, Judge Parker is rarely even mentioned in the narrative. Ezra dies of a heart attack while working at the farm. 12/54-3/55, 7/55-12/55, 4/56-7/56, 10/56, 1/57, 6/63. In 1961, Ann returns from Europe engaged to a man named Pepe who turns out to be a jewel thief. Philandering country western star who nonetheless is passionately in love with his movie star wife, Godiva Danube. And while Rex Morgan was relatively young and single, Dallis decided to make Alan Parker, his new hero, somewhat older and a widower with two teen-aged children. 2016 Sophie disappears after a car crash. Lt. James Yelich. Mr. Lavendare. Kindly grandfather of Neddy and Sophie, who takes care of the girls after the death of their father and then their mother. She enthusiastically joins Neddy in her new fashion business in 2014 and pressures Rocky into largely financing it. While kissing another guy who wonders what she sees in Parker, Sheila declares, I like squares! Max Sparrow. Not long after their debut, Dallis even established something of a pre-teen triangle with the appearance of Bumps brainy cousin, Wellington Marks. Cedric always works for very wealthy clients and there appears to be far more to his story than appears on the surface. Neddy has a happy visit with him in 2000 and fends off a romantic rival named Helen Spike Pointer. Katherine Cory, Jeeps aunt, writes Judge Parker with the news and states that Jeep wants to see Parker. In 1953, she serves as the student nurse to a belligerent millionaire named August Krindler. 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. Muscular and physically adept, Cedric is a handsome, bespectacled 30-something butler from Canada who temporarily works for elderly Parisian resident Rachel Cabot and therefore assists her guests, Abbey and Neddy Spencer. Abbey shelters Neddy and Sophie Barton. Perhaps hes still married to Viki. As a juvenile, Senna was arrested for shoplifting and vandalism, but not a single presence of the legal record after the age of 16. But, in 2016, when Hank decides to follow a spectacular career opportunity to Alaska, sparks of a different kind fly. Gloria Sanchez, an unspecified worker there, shows Sam the ropes. Its interesting reading the strip as Francesco Marciuliano takes over from Woody Wilson. (Referenced 3/25/11-4/11), 10/11-11/11, x/xx-x/xx, 7/16-11/16, 1/17. It falls on Sam to tell Abbey in 1992 that while they may be good friends, they are poor business people. Youthful and short genius who attempts unsuccessfully to romance Neddy. Abbeys oldest friend who lives outside of San Francisco and owns a winery with her brother, Keith. For twenty-one years, Judge Isaac C. Parker held the bench of the U.S. Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Blxckie, real name Sihle Sithole, is a South African platinum-certified rapper, songwriter, and producer. 1/92-6/92, 1/96-4/96, 5/04-10/14, 6/07-11/07. 2005 Glorias in jail in Mexico.Horace mentors Randy, who is falling for April. In 2016, Randy announces that April is pregnant and soon afterwards learns she has disappeared during what was to her final mission. Blackstone has an attractive dark-haired daughter named Peaches. 10/1/01-3/02, 11/02. Cory Duncan, and his troubled son Mark, moved onto Spencer Farms to tend the grounds and horses. Wellington Marks. That is the classic comic strip created in 1952 that follows the life of small-town Judge Alan Parker and his family. 12/65-5/66. Contact 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. He becomes a partner in Neddys new fashion business at Godivas behest. As Driver puts it, Handsome, talented, accomplished, war hero, single, whats not to like? The couple are due to be married in 2016, when Steve strikes off on his own as Rocky Ledges legal eagle. It is a serial strip starring a no-nonsense, upstanding lawyer who stoically handles drama and suspense. 3:18-cv -00003, 2019 WL 5064086, at *5 (M.D. Peter Bumps Doren. With 2011, Katherine is once again featured on a fairly regular basis. One of the most gripping and well written narratives was the court proceedings against the mentally unstable man who had abducted Anne. As a young man, Randy is portrayed as a light-hearted youth. . A single father of two, Davey and Chuck, addicted to gambling. Cal enlists Judge Parkers aid in stemming the tide of human trafficking, which led to the judge getting kidnapped by the General. 9/00-1/01. 1999 Sam proposes to Abbey in January. I doubt these story details were coincidental, yet subtle enough to escape the attention of readers unaware of such matters. Confident and sometimes cocky, Driver is somewhat domesticated by his romance and later marriage to Abbey Spencer and his co-parenting of her adoptive daughters. Returns to visit Abbey, who he knew when he was 12 and she was 4. When her parents die in a car crash in 1966, Jeep is due to inherit a quarter million dollars. Rachel lives on Cabot Island, near Puget Sound, and dominates affairs in the upper class community nestled there. 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An old friend of Mary Parkers before her marriage to the Judge, Marla is unaware of her death when she decides to return to the United States after 15 years abroad. Sam Driver and Abbey finally married on New Years Eve 1999, leaving Randy to carry the romantic intrigue of the comic strip, along with Neddy of course. Unfortunately, Glorias aspirations to help her community fade from the narrative and she increasingly falls in the smart-talking sidekick role. In 2004, Abbey, Sam and her brother Keith all try to discourage her ill-fated romance with bigamist, Maurice Xavier Faron. Laura and Jeff are old friends of Abbeys. It will be interesting to see what other changes he makes to the strip, both in terms of tone, stories and characters. In 1999, Sam finally proposes to her and the two are married on New Years Eve that same year. Horace comes out of the encounter unscathed, unless you count him getting to married to one of the cult devotees, Alpha. Posted By: Imright, 2/28/2023 7:02:54 AM A Miami judge declined to block Florida's 15-week abortion ban, HB 5, on Friday in a lawsuit brought by clergy members of several different faiths. Keno. In the first half of 1969, Sam is confidante to Katherine who suspects the Judge of an affair even as she is being romanced by the sinister Luke Largo. 1975 Abbeys young cousin Willson falls for Donna Laval, exceptional belly dancer. Marks father who first enlists Sams service to help his son whos been arrested Cory used to be a horse trainer but gave it up when his first wife and Marks mother died in a car accident. In 2017, she and Alan separate over Alan not keeping her in the loop with matters regarding Randys wife and child, as well as Alan working out his issues with her in an early draft of his next novel. 12/07-11/08, (referenced 12/10), 2/12-5/12, 9/13-11/13, 9/15-10/15, 2/16-3/16. 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. Trudi and Keith St. James were old friends of Abbeys from California who became her business partners. Passmore has a handsome son, Tony, who is uninterested in his criminal enterprises and a huge, good-hearted henchman named Charley. Years before the ongoing narrative begins, Alan Parkers wife Mary died, leaving the judge a widower with two children, Ann in nursing school and Randy, in high school. A highly intelligent 15-year old, Abbey Spencer takes her in when she has nowhere else to go and considers adopting her. Her first maid, Marie Arnold was killed by Johnny Kane in 1971. Dallis trots out a whole nother set of androgynous markers this time around. Rocky is referenced, but not seen in 5/12 noting his seeking representation for a book he has written regarding his life with Godiva. In 2000 and into 2001, Randy moves heaven and earth to find and rescue his father, whos been kidnapped by The General. In 2003, Randy is held hostage by Harry Horning, an older man with a legimate grievance against lawyers. As his business grew, Driver takes on on Parkers adult son and fellow attorney, Randy Parker in 1993. This prompts a custody battle between her maternal aunt, Katherine Cory, whom she loves and trusts, and her paternal uncle, Tom Carson, whom she has never liked. Ann is seen only briefly at her fathers wedding to Katherine Cory and is never seen thereafter. It doesnt help he is involved in a UFO abductee cult headed up by the mysterious Seth. An attorney who often does legal legwork on cases with which Alan Parker become involved. Helen falls for Sam until a crisis prompts her to decide to reconcile with her husband. Caesar. 6/06-11/06. Georgia also tries to woo Sam from Abbey but ultimately realizes she cant win his heart. 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