[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Dick Tracy was a great strip!

The early Little Orphan Annie strips could be violent too. I remember the Asp killing a bad guy by throwing an axe through the open window of his getaway car! Great stuff...

[weegee]

Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie is reviled by liberal comic historians. They admire his work but strongly resent his "conservativism". I have not read LOA so I am unaware of the politics of the strip.

Al Capp's Lil' Abner is also slammed for it's later decades treatment of liberals/hippies. Remember too that Al Capp visited Lennon-Ono's "bed-in" protest. I've seen some examples of Al Capp's later work (1970s) but never in context. The run that I have read (1934-1945+ complete) is largely devoid of politics.