The Menomonee Falls Gazette


The Menomonee Falls Gazette was a weekly tabloid published in the 1970s by Street Enterprises that reprinted newspaper comic strips from the United States and the UK. Strips reprinted in this publication normally fell into the adventure and soap opera categories. Typically, a full week's worth of a particular strip was collected on a single page of The Gazette. Although The Gazette was available via newsstand distribution, the bulk of its sales came from subscriptions.
Street Enterprises was the partnership of publisher Jerry Sinkovec and editor Mike Tiefenbacher, who ran the operation out of a storage trailer in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Fans of adventure comic strips, which by the early 1970s had mostly disappeared from American newspapers, they started The Menomonee Falls Gazette to keep the genre alive.
Contributing writers to The Menomonee Falls Gazette included R. C. Harvey. The publication is popular among comic-strip collectors. Back issues are frequently put up for sale on eBay.

Publication history

A precursor to The Menomonee Falls Gazette was Edwin Aprill's Cartoonist Showcase, which published reprints of Tarzan, Secret Agent Corrigan, Modesty Blaise, and James Bond.
The first issue of The Menomonee Falls Gazette was published December 13, 1971.
In the fall of 1972, The Gazette had 780 subscribers in 47 U.S. states, 10 countries, Midway Island, and Puerto Rico.
The Gazette published ballots for the 1973 Goethe Awards.
The Gazette published two issues of a free supplement called The Gazette-Advertiser to attract more subscribers.
The June 2, 1975, issue featured a Jack Kirby interview.
The final issue was published on March 3, 1978.
In November 1973, Street Enterprises took over publishing the long-running comics fanzine The Comic Reader. With the cancellation of The Menomonee Falls Gazette, Street Enterprises moved many of the strips featured in The Gazette over to ''The Comic Reader.''

List of comic strips

Comic strips reprinted in The Menomonee Falls Gazette include:Air Hawk and the Flying DoctorsAmblerApartment 3-GBatmanBen CaseyBrick BradfordBuck RogersBuz SawyerCaptain Easy Dateline: Danger!Dick TracyDr. KildareDrift MarloFlash GordonFriday FosterThe Flying DoctorsGarthThe Heart of Juliet JonesJames BondJeff CobbJeff HawkeJohnny HazardKerry DrakeKevin the BoldLittle Orphan AnnieMandrake the MagicianMary Perkins, On StageModesty BlaisePaul TempleThe PhantomPrince ValiantRed RyderRick O'ShayRip KirbyScarth A.D. 2195Secret Agent CorriganThe SeekersThe SpiritStar HawksSteve CanyonSteve Roper and Mike NomadSupermanTarzanTerry and the PiratesTug Transom
In addition to the reprinted strips, the Gazette also featured Fawn, an original full-page comic by Joe Wehrle, which ran from #142 to #188 with intermittent gaps. This was a revival of his earlier story published elsewhere, Fawn the Dark-Eyed.