FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS was a long-running comic strip, primarily remembered for its continuing storyline involving a group of teenagers. The stories were set in the peaceful small town of Shadyside where Freckles McGoosey and his various friends lived. Freckles may appear at first blush to be yet another redheaded teenage humor protagonist. His comic strip actually predates other red headed characters Hap Hazard, Henry Brewster and that Andrews kid. He had a goofy sidekick named Lard, and the girls at his high school were, of course, beautiful. Although Freckles and His Friends lasted more than half a century and was syndicated in nearly 700 newspapers, the strip was never adapted to radio, movies or television. It also was not a well known comic book series. For all the series longevity in newspapers as a strip, it only had two comic series. The first comic book series, published by Standard (Nedor) late in 1947 only lasted eight issues. The second series was published by Argo in 1955 and lasted all of four issues. The first series, by Standard started at #5 and ran until issue 12. The second series began at issue #1 and went until issue #4, so the publishing sequence is #5-12 then #1-4….weird.