# Judge Parker's long-lost daughter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** comic-strips\
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868 "2024-01-10T03:32:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/1 "2024-01-10T03:32:38Z")

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A character who I’m told was last seen in the late 1960s and has been gone in-strip for twenty years was recently reintroduced. I’m 🤯

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/2 "2024-01-10T03:36:25Z")

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Got a link?

And The Comics Curmudgeon’s take on it?

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/3 "2024-01-10T03:41:56Z")

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It’s a King Features strip, so the only site I know that carries it online requires a membership. For whatever number of free reads you can get for the month it starts here:

> **[Judge Parker](https://comicskingdom.com/judge-parker/2023-12-31)**
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> Judge Parker Sunday, December 31, 2023

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/4 "2024-01-10T05:10:22Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> And The Comics Curmudgeon’s take on it?

[https://joshreads.com/2024/01/it-is-2024-and-the-comics-curmudgeon-is-still-blogging-about-comics-you-lucky-bastards/](https://joshreads.com/2024/01/it-is-2024-and-the-comics-curmudgeon-is-still-blogging-about-comics-you-lucky-bastards/)

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/5 "2024-01-10T05:20:01Z")

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Google “Seattle Times Comics”.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/6 "2024-01-10T15:17:27Z")

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Yeah, you can often find King Features comics in a newspaper that carries them online. That’s how I got my _Mary Worth_ fix… back when I was addicted to Josh’s MST3K’ing of some of the most inadvertently hilarious storylines in comicdom.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/7 "2024-01-10T16:45:01Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> A character who I’m told was last seen in the late 1960s and has been gone in-strip for twenty years was recently reintroduced.

Did she run off with Chuck Cunningham?

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-parkers-long-lost-daughter/995868/8 "2024-01-10T17:49:55Z")

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I began reading Parker because it was so ridiculed. Who is the goofy looking guy she calls Daddy?