He was wiser than his years in observing the foibles of others but rather foolish in navigating his own affairs. In 2017, Katherine Parker moves out of the Parker household, angry at how Alan keeps things from her. Abbeys oldest friend who lives outside of San Francisco and owns a winery with her brother, Keith. An attorney who often does legal legwork on cases with which Alan Parker become involved. 2001 Glorias wealthy older sister Alexis makes the scene. Judge Parker should be more realistic. But little was made of Randys new judicial duties. Judge Parker. Abby Spencer has to spend part of her day wondering why Mayor Sanderson doesn't always work with the brothers, which isn't . Despite being pre-adolescent, the two banter like potential girl friend and boy friend. 11/11/66-7/69, 1/70, 10/70, 12/70, 5/71, 9/71-11/71, 2/72, 5/72-8/72, 11/72, 3/73-8/73, 6/74-7/74, 2/77-3/77, 4/82, 3/85-9/85, 1/87-2/87, 6/92, 7/93, 11/93-1/94, 5/97-9/97, (referenced 1/99), 1/00, 8/00-10/00, 1/01, 7/06-8/06, 2/09, 6/11-7/11, 12/12-6/14, 9/17-10/17. Hugo snaps at Jasper, telling him, I can find a thousand muscle boys like you at a dime a dozen! The judge went to prison. Later in 2016, on a road trip with Dereks band, Honey throws a liquor bottle at Sophie but accidentally hits Derek instead, leading to a near fatal accident. During this visit she also reveals a 28-year long affair with her chauffeur and butler, Groves. 1962 Enter the fey and homocidal Mr. Hugo. Theresa Delgado. 3:18-cv -00003, 2019 WL 5064086, at *5 (M.D. He doesnt respond well when she says she isnt ready to marry. 2002 Child genius Rowland Sharon attempts to romance Neddy her senior year. With the help of Drivers investigations, it emerges that Dixie murdered her lover, Dewey Cheatham, coincidentally the intended publisher of Alan Parkers novel. Sophie emerges as a highly intelligent child prodigy, with insights far beyond her years. The original Judge Parker returns on a fairly regular basis when Woody Wilson introduces a 2008 story that Alan Parker has become a novelist of espionage novels. She has been an occasional part of the narrative ever since. The trial, which plays out over three months of the narrative, serves as an interesting exploration of the pros and cons of the insanity defense. Contact When Randy is having a home built for himself in 1996, a body is discovered buried in the lot and a mystery unfolds. She blithely states that age is irrelevant until her father becomes infatuated with Ames daughter. Judge Parker declares his attention to retire after being held hostage in 2000-01 but doesnt actually do so until 2009. 1983 An only partially reformed Jeannie Kelso returns and arouses Glorias suspicions. Mr. Hugo. Since Mary Red ORiley as Sam knew her and Rusty as she is known now has become unscrupulous. In 2005, in the longest extended narrative centering on Sams legal secretary, Gloria is arrested on trumped up illegal firearm possession. Randy disappears from the narrative shortly after his fathers marriage to Katherine Cory in 1968. Lila Benson. Trudi and Keith must stave off the efforts of J. Ann rightfully declares that Preston is incapable of loving any woman when Dave Williams helps her realize his deceptions. Sophie seeks out guitar lessons from Derek and promises him a very expensive electric guitar when they are finished. She is surprised when he shows up to visit at Spencer Farms. Honey Ballenger. Trudi St. James. A childhood accident or illness left her with a pronounced limp and she must walk with a cane even though she is only in her forties. Once again declaring her love for Sam, she never repents and escapes at the end of her failed mission, hoping to escape the wrath of the man who hired her. 1998 Horace is an triangle with his young wife and old flame, Rachel Cabot. For twenty-one years, Judge Isaac C. Parker held the bench of the U.S. Court for the Western District of Arkansas. In 1875, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) was populated by cattle and horse thieves, whiskey peddlers, and bandits who sought refuge in the untamed territory free of a "White Man's Court.". It is also the story of loyal stay at home heroines, two possibly gay villains, and a feisty Latina named Gloria Sanchez. 1973 Betsy Fremont, a former love of Sams, schemes her way back into his life. Orphaned Neddy and Sophie Barton were taken under Abbeys wings and essentially adopted. 8/00), 9/05-10/05, 2/06, 5/06-6/06, (ref. 12/91-6/7/92, 11/29/95-4/7/96, 4/18/04-11/14, 1/05, 6/07-11/07. No mention is made of her being a relative of the Parkers cook. 1982 D.B. Jeannie Kelso and her twin brother Tim seek work at Spencer Farms, but her twin is actually Tim Rushland, and the two are hiding cash from an armored car heist. He sentenced 160 people to death, including four . Helen Warner. He is portrayed as less handsome as the years go by, slender with a somewhat thin face. Passmore dies of a massive heart attack, leaving his criminal empire up for grabs. 10/1/01-3/02, 11/02. With 2009, readers might have assumed with a more youthful and dynamic Judge Parker now on the job, the focus might have turned even more to Randy. April Bower. (Referenced 3/11-4/11), 9/11-11/11, 4/12, others, 7/16-8/16, 2/17-3/17. When the Judge exposes him and he is arrested by the police, Planchard begins to babble about how he will place the world under my power and laughs manically, revealing that he not just a criminal, but insane as well. Cory has a youthful second wife named Viki who disappears from the narrative after 1991. Tom and Gwen seek control of the $250,000 that has been left to Jeep by her parents. Beautiful career woman sought after to helm a television talk show, Betsy is also an old flame of Sam Driver. It falls on Sam to tell Abbey in 1992 that while they may be good friends, they are poor business people. 11/92-3/93. 5/82-9/82. I can find a thousand muscle boys like you at a dime a dozen! Keith St. James. Muscular and physically adept, Cedric is a handsome, bespectacled 30-something butler from Canada who temporarily works for elderly Parisian resident Rachel Cabot and therefore assists her guests, Abbey and Neddy Spencer. 2003 Randy represents a man who held him hostage. His gang consists of a short Latio man named Pablo and his muscle, a large rather stupid fellow named Curly. He served as a United States representative from Missouri and was appointed as the first United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, which also had jurisdiction over Indian Territory. 1968 Katherine and Alan marry. The whipsmart attorney daughter of Judge Parkers law school roommate. When Judge Parker is apparently targeted for assassination, Delgado poses as a detective who investigates her only hit attempt. Toms alcoholism is ultimately his undoing of his custody scheme, showing up drunk at Jeeps hospital and getting into a serious car crash while drunk. Ann Parker, Judge Parkers daughter, ostensibly pursues a nurses degree, but is never shown using that knowledge. His first novel, The Chambers Affair, was popular enough to be considered for development as a motion picture. Nicholas Dallis seems to have made something of a misstep (in my humble opinion, anyway) with the introduction of a trio of cute pre-teens. The Phantom writer Tony DePaul confirmed that Bret is the artist today on his blog: Unfortunately he has a girl friend, a snooty and aggressive bad girl named Honey Ballenger. -Judge Isaac C. Parker, 1896. In the meantime, he proposes to Abbey, but Sam reveals to her his criminal enterprises. When her parents die in a car crash in 1966, Jeep is due to inherit a quarter million dollars. The two marry on February 11, 1968. 1995 Randys wealthy client, Horace Riley, is caught up in a UFO cult. Jeannie ends up confessing to Abbey that Sam loves Abbey, not her, before leaving town once again. Carla Dane. Impressive overview. 1981 Maggi Bensons addicted to narcotics, Linda May Greer, teen actress, to alcohol. Godiva Danube. In 2007, she shows a softer side in hosting Abby and Neddy in Paris, but nonetheless pretends to have cancer for sympathy when she is actually suffering from dementia. In actuality, Baroot thinks the highly wooded Spencer Farms would be the perfect front for his cocaine smuggling business. You are now leaving The Seattle Times. 7/55-12/55, 1/57-5/57, 1/61-3/61. Neddy falls in love with him despite her Aunt Rachels objections. Posted By: Imright, 2/28/2023 7:02:54 AM A Miami judge declined to block Florida's 15-week abortion ban, HB 5, on Friday in a lawsuit brought by clergy members of several different faiths. He wears a cumberbun, a string tie, is constantly fanning himself with an Asian fan, and eats opera cream chocolates. meets and falls in love with his handsome, non-criminal son, Tony. These two stories were the only Judge Parker stories to tread on this territory and I dont want to suggest these themes were central to Dallis writing. Sam Driver and Abbey finally married on New Years Eve 1999, leaving Randy to carry the romantic intrigue of the comic strip, along with Neddy of course. In 1966, Randy becomes a devotee of Casandra Canabar. Something of a schmoozer and charmer even as a teen, Randy is prone to wax philosophical about women to the amusement of his father.In 1953, he becomes entangled with a young club dancer named Kathy Valentine after returning from boarding school. It all turned out to be a scheme of a jealous admirer of said secretary who wanted the Judge to fire her. But two years later finds Horace seeking a divorce because the far younger Alpha wants children. She is attractive and intelligent, capable of putting the often charmingly arrogant Driver in his place. 12/2/86-8/7/87. 1959 Enter fey narcotics smuggler, Mr. Lavendare, followed by boxer Johnny Dove. In Sam Drivers estimation, the greatest quarterback in professional football. The women who populated soap opera comic strips written by men represent fertile territory for a study of mens attitudes toward women in the first decades of womens liberation. His campaign is ultimately undone by his vicious, alcoholic wife. 1977 Alans secretary Carla Dane is crooked. And talking about dimes, you didnt have two to rub together when I picked you up off the beach. Enraged, Jasper attempts to strangle Hugo until he snaps out of it. Honorable Isaac C. Parker, Judge of the United States Court for the Western District of Arkansas, died at his home in this city at 2.45 o'clock Tuesday morning, November 17, 1896. She soon falls for him but fears he could never love her given the age difference. Sam considers offering him a partnership in 1994 but doesnt when Randy gets a job offer from a prestigious firm in Atlanta. 1/07-5/07. Unfortunately, Lili is being used by a crooked boy friend named Rusty Dowell who involves her in a scheme to rob Spencer Farms. A character was kidnapped, but why and how were never shown, and the consequences were only hinted at. Lavender was a marker of androgyny in popular culturehalfway between the blue of boys and the pink of girls. Rocky Ledge. 8/54 and sparodically thereafter, 12/66-3/67. Katherine is 35 when she meets Alan and is a career woman of unspecified type and a widow who lost her husband in the service two years previously. As a juvenile, Senna was arrested for shoplifting and vandalism, but not a single presence of the legal record after the age of 16. Do you know from what year the reprints are fromI know in the case of the 1956 Argo Rex Morgan and Mary Worth reprints, the actual stories are from a number of years earlier. On February 14th, we meet Sam Driver for the first time. Helmuth himself is under the negative influence of his paramour and administrative aid, Dellas, who is actually siphoning millions off the company without Helmuths knowledge. 1987 Abbey is romanced by handsome Homer Baroot, secretly a cocaine smuggler. The Gardia Brothers use Aprils trip to see him and get married to track his location. Marie. 11/66-2/67. Beginning in 2012, however, it becomes clear that April is actually a government operative. 1988 Abbeys cousin, itinerant painter David Delacourt, visits Spencer Farms. Under the stress of Sophies disappearance, Sam and Abbey grow ever more distant from each other. As his business grew, Driver takes on on Parkers adult son and fellow attorney, Randy Parker in 1993. In 1959, that was about as explicit as you could get on the newspaper comics page. In 2017, she and Alan separate over Alan not keeping her in the loop with matters regarding Randys wife and child, as well as Alan working out his issues with her in an early draft of his next novel. Stories regained some of their earlier vitality, though the social consciousness of Dallis largely disappeared. Finally: we've had a rough couple of weeks on the Phantom enterprise, hence you can . Several stories between 1954 and 1957 revolved around these characters. Steve Shannon. An opportunistic couple who see dollar signs with the death of Toms brother, the father of the now orphaned Jeep Carson. One of them, insanely jealous of her, kills an associate named Otto who wondered if she was incapable of love and almost kills Randy. 1972 One of Abbeys dearest friends, Lynn Burdan, has partial amnesia. Dallis delivered a storyline that could have just as easily have been told about Anne. Ann is seen only briefly at her fathers wedding to Katherine Cory and is never seen thereafter. 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