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It’s a real shame sometimes, the way you see some promising features treated in this business of combing through forgotten comics pages of long ago. Bonney Royal’s Clarence Culpepper is one such strip. It lasted a mere five weeks, hardly given a chance at all (though, to be fair, I suppose a full page debut in the Sunday edition of the Chicago Tribune was no small deal). The art is pleasant and the Chicago setting fun.  My efforts to locate any subsequent work in the funnies from Bonney Royal have been unsuccessful. A pity.