Hawkshaw the Detective

Hawkshaw the Detective
Launch date(1st run) February 23, 1913 (1913-02-23)
(2nd run) December 13, 1931
End date(1st run) November 12, 1922
(2nd run) 1952 (1952)
Alternate name(s)Sherlocko the Monk
Syndicate(s)World Feature Service (1913–1932)
United Feature Syndicate (1933–1952)

Hawkshaw the Detective was a comic strip character featured in an eponymous cartoon serial by Gus Mager from February 23, 1913, to November 12, 1922, and again from December 13, 1931, to 1952. (The revival was a topper to The Captain and the Kids.) The name of Mager's character was derived from the common American slang of the time, in which a hawkshaw meant a detective—that slang itself derived from playwright Tom Taylor's use of the name for the detective in his 1863 stage play The Ticket of Leave Man.

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