The newspaper strip saga of the adventures of an entertainer named Claire Voyant was published as a comic book by the founder of The Hill. TheHill sponsored
\nClaire Voyant was the creation of Jack Sparling and debuted in the tabloid newspaper daily PM on May 9, 1943. Claire was found drifting on a life raft by a U.S. Navy ship, and it was soon discovered she had amnesia. The ship's cook suggested the name 'Claire Voyant' by paging through a dictionary, cleverly reasoning that a name suggesting knowing the future is the very opposite of not knowing your past.
\nClaire Voyant #4 \nAfter launching in PM, the strip was initially syndicated to a relatively small number of newspapers by PM, and then went wider when the Chicago Sun Syndicate took over syndication of the strip in October 1944. Infamously, one issue of the comic book series attracted the attention of notorious comic book critic Gershon Legman in his book Love and Death.
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