The marvelous Katzenjammer Kids were German, initially, but with the advent of the war they were hastily renamed and converted into Dutch boys! Typical idiocy one sees in wartime....mustn't let anything interfere with stirring up national hatred of the Germans, right?

Well, in time they reverted back to the German names and became Germans again.

Yes, the Brenda Starr comic did get very, very weird at times. No doubt about that. I guess it should be added to the list.

The one soap opera style comic that did not get the least bit weird, but remained totally sensible and rational, looked great, and had great stories and characters was "Mary Perkins, Onstage" about a career actress in theatre. Darned good comic, extremely well drawn and written. Its heroine, who had a solid and successful stage career but never became famous, was probably the most realistic and sympathetic character of her sort ever to grace the Sunday pages. I still remember that one fondly.