Dear Lou,

A bow and a doff of the Panama to you as you are the Chief of the Chan Comics Corps!

I believe that this next run will mark our fifth trip through the fabulous world of Charlie Chan in newsprint. Out of the total of 188 Charlie Chan Sunday comics that were produced we only lack 20 examples. Little by little gaps in our collection have closed through a constant search of Internet sources, especially eBay! Interestingly, ALL of our 20 missing original comics come from the year 1941. My thought is that with the scrap material drives that occurred after the attack on Pearl Harbor at the end of that year, people went through their attics, basements, and garages, and, among the paper contributed to the cause went newspapers, including the comics sections. So, we continue to use "facsimile" examples until the rare "find" pops up!

While I am at it, in case anyone reading this happens to know the whereabouts of a Charlie Chan Sunday newspaper comic from any of the following dates, please let me know! One never knows...

4/6/41
4/13/41
4/20/41
5/11/41
5/18/41
7/13/41
7/20/41
7/27/41
8/10/41
9/14/41
9/21/41
10/5/41
10/12/41
10/19/41
10/26/41
11/9/41
11/16/41
11/23/41
11/30/41
12/21/41

Thank you, again, Lou!

Sincerely,
Rush