Joseph Stopford Archibald was born on September 2, 1898, in Newington, New Hampshire to Alexander and Angelina Archibald. At the age of twelve, he had sold his first cartoon to Judge magazine. By the age of fifteen, he had begun his writing career with a prize-winning contribution to the Boston Post. Archibald attended Chicago Academy of Fine Arts before enlisting in the United States Navy during World War I.
THE WIDOW'S BITE
When the Energetic Guardian Angel of Milldew Goes on the Trail of a Killer She Knows How to Fashion a Frame that Fits!
NO PLACE LIKES HOMICIDE
The question of who knocked off the bank messenger and stole the 60 grand proves a $64 puzzler to Willie Klump!
SHORT ORDER CROOK
Snooty Piper planned to paste a new mug in the Death House album. For when Philatelist Silas Swunk took the long count, Snooty had to frame a suicide stamp to complete the Grim Reaper’s collection.
CONFUCIUS SLAY
Man who leave shiv in citizen’s brisket get hot seat chop-chop, yep.
FROM SPAD TO WORSE
The Happy-Go-Lucky Pilots Stumble on Their Merry Way—and Sometimes the Falls are Not so Funny!
BANG TALE
Snooty Piper and Scoop Binney become crime jockeys as they follow the nags to a horse-racing homicide. And to get old Abigail Hepplethwaite, the Beantown mint, out from under a first-degree rap, the Dizzy Duo ride a long-shot hunch to a bangtail fare-thee-well.
TAKEN FOR A BRIDE
SHOE TREED
The Hawkeye Hawkshaw Tries to Pick Up a Frill—and Is Bounced into the Midst of Murder and Robbery!
SLIP SERVICE
When a chopper made mincemeat out of Honest Eddie Grub— the Robin Hood of Roxbury—those two screwball newshawks, Snooty and Scoop, stirred up a hot-seat concoction
SPOOK SPAD
Now You See It, Now You Don’t When Ambrose Hooley and Muley Spink Cut Camouflage Capers in the Jerries’ Backyard!