Adam Ames (Part 7)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

Part Seven: Beejay Colt

Jun 5 - Sep 16, 1961

Adam takes his family to Lake Granawaki for the summer where he gets accused of murder after he gets into a heated argument with a local man, Beejay Colt, who later mysteriously disappears. 

Adam Ames (Part 6)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

Part Six: Amy and Bruce

Feb 13 - Jun 3, 1961

Wendy feels that Joel is spending too much time studying. Wendy, without breaking off her engagement to Joel, starts dating Brent, a junior at Trent College. Wendy's friend Amy encourages Wendy's (mis)behavior and also works to convince Joel that he should forget about Wendy.

Adam Ames (Part 5)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

Part Five: Helena and Harvey Harnet

Oct 5, 1960 - Feb 11, 1961

07/10/26

Oct 5, 1960 - A woman and her adult son, Harvey, arrive at their new home, next door to the Bakins. Harvey doesn't care for the look of Malvern but his mother feels otherwise.

Adam Ames (Part 4)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

Part Four: Wendy Bakin

May 11 - Oct 4, 1960

05/28/26

May 11, 1960 - Miss Blue, one of Joel’s teachers, catches him drawing in class while staring at one of his classmates.

I get the impression that Miss Blue teaches something other than art.

Adam Ames (Part 3)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

Part 3: Hank Weer and Brock Emmady

Jan 22 - May 10, 1960

04/27/26

Jan 22-23, 1960 - Adam and Joel arrive home. Bessie is working on dinner. Adam wants to know where Susie and Buzz are at. Bessie has no idea. Adam goes looking for his two youngest kids. They are hiding in his studio. Susie tells Buzz to keep quiet. Their faces are dirty.

I have no idea what Susie and Buzz have been doing. Maybe they will play a bigger role in this arc than they did in the first two arcs. 

Adam Ames (Part 2)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

Part 2: The Sembles

Sep 30, 1959 - Jan 21, 1960

03/25/26

Sep 30, 1959 - Bessie gets very excited when Morell Semble, the richest man in Malvern, comes to the Ames house. 

Maybe the strips from Sep 28 and 29 should be part of the second arc but I think they belong with the previous one. My guess is that Semble wants Adam to paint his portrait or something like that. Where will that lead? I have no idea.

Adam Ames (Part 1)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

I recently discovered an archive of this comic strip online at ComicBookPlus. I decided to give it a try. Adam Ames was a daily strip (Mon-Sat). It ran for just over three years, from July 6, 1959 until July 28, 1962. I started by reading it for free on ComicBookPlus which has the strips through Feb 11, 1961 (about half of the total run of Adam Ames). After reading the first five weeks worth of strips I decided to order the collected edition from Lulu which includes the full run of Adam Ames.