OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#8) : 40th Anniversary of the 1978 New York Newspaper Strike & the Interim Strike Newspapers

Today, August 10, marks the 40th anniversary of the 1978 New York City newspaper strike, a pressman's strike, that resulted in the cessation of publication of all three major New York newspapers; the New York  Daily News, The New York Post, and the New York Times.

[This was by no means the first strike in NYC newspaper history. In fact, I detailed the earlier 1962-63 strike HERE.]

According to The Washington Post.......

"The New York strike began on August 9, when the Times, News and Post unilaterally posted new work rules that drastically reduced manning requirements. The pressmen struck on all three dailies and other unions honored the picket lines, shutting the papers down and idling more than 10,000 workers."

The entire length of the walkout reached 87 days before the Times and News resumed publication on November 6, with the New York Post returning earlier on October 5.

That particular summer I was working in a candy store/newsstand in Jackson Heights, NY, on the corner of Northern Blvd. and 73rd street, directly across the street from both The International House of Pancakes (I still refuse to call it IHOP, or even worse, the horrific IHOB!!) and the Mark Twain Diner. Memory is telling me it may have been the summer the owners were out of the store most of the day, caring for a family pregnancy, leaving me in charge during the day. The Sun Stationary store was previously owned by  the parents of a baseball team friend of mine, Gary Gold, a phenomenal young hockey player and teammate of mine for two years on the Astoria youth baseball team, Silksox Boy's Club.

This is the corner Gold/Sun Candy/Stationary store newsstand circa, I believe, 1980. 

Today, that long-time bastion of newspapers, magazines, candy, stickball bats and comic books, is a Verizon Wireless store (or at least it was as recent as 3 years ago, the last time I was in my old neighborhood).

[The photos above I lifted from one of my older blog posts HERE, where I talk in more detail about my early obsession with the NY Sunday News comics of my youth, as well as my time working at the Gold/Sun Candy/Stationary store newsstand.] The photo below of proprietor Steve Sun and his wife in their store circa 1986. Except for taking the soda fountain out in 1975 (replacing it with a glass display case for nick-nacks, a huge mistake in my humble opinion), the interior of the store cabinetry was unchanged from back in the 1950's or earlier, including two old-fashioned wooden phone booths with attached sliding doors and phone books, in the back of the store.

When the strike hit on Thursday the 10th, the Sunday color comics section for Sunday the 13th had already been sitting in three large bundles in the back room of the store, awaiting assembling on Saturday night for the Saturday night early weekend edition (along with all the New York Times interior sections). By Monday morning, and a just starting strike, I realized we had three large bundles of junk and before throwing the entire thing out, I deftly saved one section for myself, having been saving such Sunday comics sections for over 7 years at that point. In hindsight, I should have taken an entire bundle home as it's doubtful any of these unpublished Sunday sections have been saved at all. Is it possible I have the only one in existence, I wonder?

Within a week's time, movers and shakers within the New York newspaper industry began to organize interim  "strike papers", which reached a total of four, by my count. Three of the four were carried for their entire run (with scattered exceptions) at our store, The New York Daily Metro, City News and The New York Daily Press. A 4th paper, The New York Graphic, was delivered to my store haphazardly, and I only saw a small, tiny part of the run. One copy of every single edition that came through my store was saved by myself in large manila envelopes, only to be uncovered and examined for the first time, within the last three years, when I began to write about the history of the New York Daily News Sunday comics in a Facebook group I run.

There was no color Sunday comics in these strike newspapers (except once, as we'll see below) but they did carry daily comics (mostly) and often black and white Sunday comics on Saturday and/or Sunday. Below I will document for the first time, the breadth of their run as sold by my particular store. There are some missing cover images, issues my store did not carry, for whatever reason, and which I hope perhaps someone out there may be able to supply. But for the most part, the collection is very deep.

It was an extremely busy news time.... Mid-East unrest and peace summits : President Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, plane crashes, Iran earthquake and political unrest, two Popes (John Paul I and John Paul II), Mayor Ed Koch, Governor Hugh Carey, a terrible New York Mets team, a pennant run and World Series win by the New York Yankees including Ron Guidry's Cy Young season and Bucky Dent's playoff home run vs Boston, a baseball umpire strike, New York Cosmos soccer championship mania, Ali/Spinks 2nd heavyweight bout,  numerous celebrity deaths including The Who's drummer Keith Moon, House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation into the JFK and MLK killings ... all happening and being covered by "strike papers," flying by the seat of their pants to get the news to the public. With the internet being pervasive over the last 20 years, anyone under 30 doesn't realize a pre-internet world had only daily newspapers recording daily life and humanity's ongoing history in a physical record. Television and radio broadcasts were fleeting and ephemeral, listened/watched, and then they were gone. There were no practical recording mediums for consumers yet, not even really home video. Newspapers were the de facto manner for preserving for posterity.

My plan below is to show all the front pages, all the comics, all the "strike news" as it was covered in each paper, and anything else I feel noteworthy, meaning my personal preferences. Consider this a time capsule of three months duration, capturing a quarter year of New York's late 1970's essence. 40 years gone now, immersing into this miasma of world events, popular culture and media on a day by day basis, to my memory it seems like yesterday. The reality though, is that it was a long time ago, a near half century. It's a New York that is gone, a ghost image. The country had recently emerged from the stink of Watergate and Vietnam, it was a period of crime, anger, pollution and continued pop culture upheaval. Yes, the 1960's had irrevocably turned society on its head, but the 1970's just made the upheaval harsher. Additionally, almost of the personalities of the period are likewise gone. Anyone 50 years of age or older in 1978 are most likely deceased today. Politicians, world leaders, news writers for these very newspapers, film, music and TV stars, and even many of the athletes.... all gone. And the younger set are now approaching their senior years. Younger television and film stars of the time are now approaching 70. It's been a sobering exercise. I was 17 in 1978. I'm three years shy of 60 now.

STRIKE NEWSPAPERS

1) City News Vol 1, #1 (August 17) to Vol 1, #67 (November 3)
2) New York Daily Metro Vol 1, #1 (August 21) to Vol 1, #38 (October 5)
3) New York Daily Press  Vol 1, #1 (August 21) to Vol 1, #64 (November 4-5)
4) New York Graphic Vol 1, #1 (August 29?) to Vol 1, #19+? (September 17+?)

The first paper to appear was City News, on August 17, 1978, one week into the strike, and lasting 67 issues until November 3rd. The editorial on page 3 of the debut daily edition explains its origin and a lead story on "the strike"....

1) CITY NEWS  

 8/17/78 to 11/3/78 

(67 issues)

Missing cover images:

Vol 1, #6 - August 23, 1978

Vol 1, #17 -  September 4 or 5, 1978

Vol 1, #22

Vol 1, #23

Vol 1, #24

Vol 1, #25

Vol 1, #27

Vol 1, #28

Vol 1, #29

Vol 1, #31 - September 22 or 23, 1978

Vol 1, #35 - September 27, 1978

Vol 1, #39 - October 2, 1978

Vol 1, #41 - October 4, 1978

Vol 1, #44

Vol 1, #45

Vol 1, #46

Vol 1, #47

COVER IMAGES: 

Vol 1, #1 - August 17, 1978

Vol 1, #2 - August 18, 1978

Vol 1, #3 - August 20, 1978

Vol 1, #4 - August 21, 1978

Vol 1, #5 - August 22, 1978

Vol 1, #7 - August 24, 1978

Vol 1, #8 - August 25, 1978

Vol 1, #9 - August 27, 1978

Vol 1, #10 - August 28, 1978

Vol 1, #11 - August 29, 1978

Vol 1, #12 - August 30, 1978

Vol 1, #13 - August 31, 1978

Vol 1, #14 - September 1, 1978

Vol 1, #15 -  September 3, 1978

Vol 1, #17 -  September 6, 1978

Vol 1, #18 -  September 7, 1978

Vol 1, #19 -  September 8, 1978

Vol 1, #20 -  September 10, 1978

Vol 1, #21 -  September 11, 1978

Vol 1, #26 -  September 17, 1978

Vol 1, #30 -  September 21, 1978

Vol 1, #32 -  September 24, 1978

Vol 1, #33 -  September 25, 1978

Vol 1, #34 -  September 26, 1978

Vol 1, #36 -  September 28, 1978

Vol 1, #37 -  September 29, 1978

Vol 1, #38 -  October 1, 1978

Vol 1, #40 -  October 3, 1978

Vol 1, #42 -  October 5, 1978

Vol 1, #43 -  October 6, 1978

Vol 1, #48 -  October 12, 1978

Vol 1, #49 -  October 13, 1978

Vol 1, #50 -  October 15, 1978

Vol 1, #51 -  October 16, 1978

Vol 1, #52 -  October 17, 1978

Vol 1, #53 -  October 18, 1978

Vol 1, #54 -  October 19, 1978

Vol 1, #55 -  October 20, 1978

Vol 1, #56 -  October 22, 1978

Vol 1, #57 -  October 23, 1978

Vol 1, #58 -  October 24, 1978

Vol 1, #59 -  October 25, 1978

Vol 1, #60 -  October 26, 1978

Vol 1, #61 -  October 27, 1978

Vol 1, #62 -  October 29, 1978

Vol 1, #63 -  October 30, 1978

Vol 1, #64 -  October 31, 1978

Vol 1, #65 -  November 1, 1978

Vol 1, #66 -  November 2, 1978

Vol 1, #67 -  November 3, 1978

COMICS:
And what about the comics? City News ran comics sparsely and with little care as to what they were doing. The strips that did get published were mostly features that didn't even run in either the News or the Post in New York. For some reason, it "did" run the Sunday Inside Woody Allen strip, in black and white, a feature that was running in the News prior to the strike. But the miscellaneous Disney, Archie and related strips were strange to see in NY papers. Only 8 different strips appeared in City News. Some appeared almost every time comics were run, others only on Sunday. One or two only once or twice. Dates were usually on target, but occasionally not. Some same strips were even run more than once.

Inside Woody Allen
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse
Henry
Flash Gordon
Archie
Bringing Up Father (only Sunday)
Ponytail (only Sunday)
Boner's Ark (also titled Bonner, and Boner)

Of the 50 (of 62) issues I have, a total of only 23 issues carried comics. Lets take a look at them below.....

• Vol 1, #1 (Aug 17, 1978) (comics)

The paper debuted on a Thursday, August 17. The single page of comics on page 16  ran the following Sunday's Inside Woody Allen of August 20, and the following Monday's Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Henry for August 21.

Vol 1, #2 (Aug 18, 1978) (comics)

Friday the 18th ran a single page consisting of the correctly dated Flash Gordon, the previous day's (8/17) Archie, and the correctly dated Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Henry.

• Vol 1, #5 (Aug 22, 1978) (comics)

Tuesday the 22nd had 2 strips, both correctly dated..Archie and Henry.

• Vol 1, #7 (Aug 24, 1978) (comics)

Thursday the 24th ran 4 strips, all correctly dated, and all untitled. Boner's Ark, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, Henry and Archie.

• Vol 1, #8 (Aug 25, 1978) (comics)

Friday the 25th ran 4 strips, all correctly dated. Boner's Ark (titled Bonners), Mickey Mouse (minus the prefix "Walt Disney's"), Henry and Archie.

• Vol 1, #9 (Aug 27, 1978) (comics)

Sunday the 27th ran 2 correctly dated Sunday strips, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Ponytail.

• Vol 1, #10 (Aug 28, 1978) (comics)

Monday the 28th ran 4 strips dated the 26th, the previous Saturday. Archie, Henry, Boner's Ark (titled Bonners) and Mickey Mouse.

• Vol 1, #11 (Aug 29, 1978) (comics)

Tuesday the 29th ran 4 correctly dated strips, Mickey Mouse, Henry, Boner's Ark (titled Bonners) and Archie.

• Vol 1, #12 (Aug 30, 1978) (comics)

Wednesday the 30th ran 4 correctly dated strips, Archie, Boner's Ark (now called just Boners), Mickey Mouse and Henry.

• Vol 1, #13 (Aug 31, 1978) (comics)

Thursday the 31st ran 4 correctly dated strips. Archie, Boner's Ark (titled Boners), Henry and Mickey Mouse.

• Vol 1, #14 (September 1, 1978) (comics)

Friday the 1st ran 4 correctly dated comics, Henry, Boner's Ark (titled Boners), Mickey Mouse and Archie.

• Vol 1, #15 (September 3, 1978) (comics)

Sunday the 3rd ran 4 full pages of comics consisting of 6 strips, but only 5 different! All were correctly dated. Inside Woody Allen, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, Boner's Ark, and then Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse "again", this time as a full tab size!!

• Vol 1, #17 (September 6, 1978) (comics)

Wednesday the 6th ran four correctly dated strips, Archie, Boner's Ark (titled Boners), Henry and Mickey Mouse.

• Vol 1, 18 (September 7, 1978) (comics)

Thursday the 7th ran the same 4 strips, all correctly dated. Archie, Henry, Boner's Ark (titled Boners) and Mickey Mouse.

• Vol 1, #20 (September 10, 1978) (comics)

Sunday the 10th had 4 pages of comics and 6 total features, all correctly dated (although Archie is undated, I assume it's correct). Archie, and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse as full tab size, half tab Inside Woody Allen, Pony Tail, Henry and Bringing Up Father.

• Vol 1, #21 (September 11, 1978) (comics)

Monday the 11th had 4 correctly dated features, Archie, Mickey Mouse, Henry and Boner's Ark (titled Boners).

• Vol 1, #30 (September 21, 1978) (comics)

A 10 day jump until comics appear again on Thursday the 21st, the same 4 features with correct dates, Archie, Henry, Boner's Ark (titled Boner), and Mickey Mouse.

• Vol 1, #32 (September 24, 1978) (comics)

Sunday the 24th with 3 pages of comics but only 3 full tab features, Archie, Henry and Inside Woody Allen.

• Vol 1, #43 (October 6, 1978) (comics)

Friday the 6th had 4 strips, Archie, Boner's Ark (finally correctly titled!), Mickey Mouse and Henry.

• Vol 1, #48 (October 12, 1978) (comics)

Thursday the 12th with only 3 strips, Archie, Boner's Ark and Mickey Mouse.

• Vol 1, #50 (October 15, 1978) (comics)

A real mash-up. Sunday the 15th with 4 pages of comics. First, 2 untitled and undated daily strips for Henry and Archie.They were probably the day before's strips, Saturday October 14. Then full tab Archie for October 1 and Inside Woody Allen for October 8. Half tabs Poneytail for October 8 and Bringing Up Father for October 1.

• Vol 1, #56 (October 22, 1978) (comics)

Another Sunday mash-up. Archie and Bringing Up Father (strangely printed in red!) for October 8, Ponytail and Inside Woody Allen for October 1.

• Vol 1, #62 (October 29, 1978) (comics)

Final Sunday, Inside Woody Allen, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Henry for October 1, 1978. The Woody Allen Sunday is the second straight week the 10/1 strip was run. Obviously no one was giving any mind whatsoever to these comics placements.

                                                                                                        
BILL GALLO:

Famed New York Daily News sports cartoonist Bill Gallo immediately continued his cartooning as a staff cartoonist for City News, primarily appearing on the back page sports section, as well as local spot illustrations in the main section. I will crop the cartoons below and leave the entire back page for the "news" section that follows. Considering these cartoons below appeared in a "strike" newspaper, they have been completely unseen for 40 years.

• Vol 1, #3 - August 20, 1978

• Vol 1, #4 - August 21, 1978

• Vol 1, #5 - August 22, 1978

Spot illo....

• Vol 1, #7 - August 24, 1978

Spot illo....

• Vol 1, #8 - August 25, 1978

• Vol 1, #9 - August 27, 1978

• Vol 1, #10 - August 28, 1978

• Vol 1, #11 - August 29, 1978

• Vol 1, #12 - August 30, 1978

• Vol 1, #13 - August 31, 1978

• Vol 1, #14 - September 1, 1978

• Vol 1, #15 - September 3, 1978

• Vol 1, #17 - September 6, 1978

Spot illo...

• Vol 1, #18 - September 7, 1978

Spot illo....

• Vol 1, #19 - September 8, 1978

Spot illo. p.4

• Vol 1, #20 - September 10, 1978

• Vol 1, #21 - September 11, 1978

• Vol 1, #26 - September 17, 1978

• Vol 1, #30 - September 21, 1978

• Vol 1, #32 - September 24, 1978

• Vol 1, #33 - September 25, 1978

Spot illo...

• Vol 1, #34 - September 26, 1978

• Vol 1, #37 - September 29, 1978

• Vol 1, #38 - October 1, 1978

• Vol 1, #40 - October 3, 1978

• Vol 1, #42 - October 5, 1978

• Vol 1, #43 - October 6, 1978

• Vol 1, #48 - October 12, 1978

• Vol 1, #49 - October 13, 1978

• Vol 1, #50 - October 15, 1978

• Vol 1, #51 - October 16, 1978

• Vol 1, #52 - October 17, 1978

• Vol 1, #53 - October 18, 1978

• Vol 1, #54 - October 19, 1978

• Vol 1, #55 - October 20, 1978

• Vol 1, #56 - October 22, 1978

• Vol 1, #57 - October 23, 1978

• Vol 1, #58 - October 24, 1978

• Vol 1, #59 - October 25, 1978

Spot illo....

• Vol 1, #60 - October 26, 1978

• Vol 1, #61 - October 27, 1978

• Vol 1, #62 - October 29, 1978

Spot illo....

• Vol 1, #63 - October 30, 1978

• Vol 1, #64 - October 31, 1978

• Vol 1, #65 - November 1, 1978

• Vol 1, #66 - November 2, 1978

• Vol 1, #67 - November 3, 1978

NEWS:
Items of note, including the back page sports headlines (and frequent Bill Gallo cartoon).

• Vol 1, #1 - August 17, 1978           

• Vol 1, #3 - August 20, 1978 

• Vol 1, #4 - August 21, 1978

Vol 1, #5 - August 22, 1978 

     

• Vol 1, #7 - August 24, 1978 

• Vol 1, #8 - August 25, 1978 

• Vol 1, #9 - August 27, 1978 

• Vol 1, #10 - August 28, 1978 

• Vol 1, #11 - August 29, 1978 

• Vol 1, #12 - August 30, 1978 

• Vol 1, #13 - August 31, 1978 

• Vol 1, #14 - September 1, 1978 

The great Bill Evans...

• Vol 1, #15 - September 3, 1978 

• Vol 1, #17 - September 6, 1978

• Vol 1, #18 - September 7, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #19 - September 8, 1978

The Who drummer Keith Moon dies:

• Vol 1, #21 - September 11, 1978

Vol 1, #26 - September 17, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #30 - September 21, 1978

• Vol 1, #32 - September 24, 1978

• Vol 1, #33 - September 25, 1978

• Vol 1, #34 - September 26, 1978

House Select Committee on Assassinations:

• Vol 1, #36 - September 28, 1978

House Select Committee on Assassinations:

• Vol 1, #37 - September 29, 1978

House Select Committee on Assassinations:

• Vol 1, #38 - October 1, 1978

House Select Committee on Assassinations:

• Vol 1, #40 - October 3, 1978

• Vol 1, #42 - October 5, 1978

• Vol 1, #43 - October 6, 1978

Strike News: The New York Post Returns!

• Vol 1, #48 - October 12, 1978

• Vol 1, #49 - October 13, 1978

• Vol 1, #50 - October 15, 1978

• Vol 1, #51 - October 16, 1978

• Vol 1, #52 - October 17, 1978

• Vol 1, #53 - October 18, 1978

• Vol 1, #54 - October 19, 1978

• Vol 1, #55 - October 20, 1978

• Vol 1, #56 - October 22, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #57 - October 23, 1978

• Vol 1, #58 - October 24, 1978

Rolling Stones Keith Richards:

• Vol 1, #59 - October 24, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #60 - October 26, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #61 - October 27, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #62 - October 29, 1978

Tom Seaver in Japan:

• Vol 1, #63 - October 30, 1978

• Vol 1, #64 - October 31, 1978

• Vol 1, #65 - November 1, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #66 - November 2, 1978

Strike News:

• Vol 1, #67 - November 3, 1978

STRIKE'S OVER!!!

 

2) NEW YORK DAILY METRO  

 8/21/78 to 10/5/78 

(38 issues)

The New York Metro launched 4 days after City News on August 21 and was backed seemingly by Rupert Murdoch, the publisher of The New York Post, who helped set up part of the paper's distribution network. When it ended a month earlier than the strike ended, the Post resumed publishing on October 5 for the October 6 edition..

The paper was called The New York Daily Metro during the week and The New York Sunday Metro when it ran on Sundays, which it didn't, at its start.

Missing cover images: My collection of this paper is missing only 4 issues:

Vol 1, #2 - August 22, 1978

Vol 1, #3 - August 23, 1978

Vol 1, #15 - September 7, 1978
Vol 1, #16 - September 8, 1978

The paper launched with this editorial on Monday, August 21. Of note at the bottom left, is a mention that the New York News World newspaper, a daily and Sunday publication financed by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, was not affected by this pressman's strike and was still publishing. I mention this because News World had a great Sunday comics section, a two-year run of which I still have to this day.

A week and a half into the paper's run this full page editorial about the strike ran on September 3, 1978 including a newsstand photo showing the New York Metro along with sister strike paper the New York Graphic and Rev. Sun Myung Moon's News World (which did not stop publishing during the strike)

   


COVER IMAGES:

Vol 1, #1 - August 21, 1978                                                                                                                                   

Vol 1, #4 - August 24, 1978              

Vol 1, #5 - August 25, 1978   

Vol 1, #6 - August 26, 1978   

Vol 1, #7 - August 28, 1978   

Vol 1, #8 - August 29, 1978   

Vol 1, #9 - August 30, 1978   

Vol 1, #10 - August 31, 1978   

Vol 1, #11 - September 1, 1978   

Vol 1, #12 - September 3, 1978   

Vol 1, #13 - September 5, 1978   

Vol 1, #14 - September 6, 1978   

Vol 1, #17 - September 10, 1978   

Vol 1, #18 - September 11, 1978   

Vol 1, #19 - September 12, 1978   

Vol 1, #20 - September 13, 1978   

Vol 1, #21 - September 14, 1978   

Vol 1, #22 - September 15, 1978   
This issue is misprinted Vol 1, #17 on cover. It's not.

Vol 1, #23 - September 17, 1978   

Vol 1, #24 - September 18, 1978   

Vol 1, #25 - September 19, 1978   

Vol 1, #26 - September 20, 1978   

Vol 1, #27 - September 21, 1978   

Vol 1, #28 - September 22, 1978   

Vol 1, #29 - September 24, 1978   

Vol 1, #30 - September 25, 1978   

Vol 1, #31 - September 26, 1978   

Vol 1, #32 - September 27, 1978   

Vol 1, #33 - September 28, 1978   

Vol 1, #34 - September 29, 1978   

Vol 1, #35 - October 1, 1978   

Vol 1, #36 - October 3, 1978   

Vol 1, #37 - October 4, 1978   

Vol 1, #38 - October 5, 1978   

COMICS:
Did The New York Metro run comics? Barely. Going through my entire collection, I've come up with 8 different comics total in only 4 Sunday editions, which didn't appear until the second week of publication (both the Sunday edition and the comics).

Inside Woody Allen
Nubbin
The Flop Family
The Good Old Days
Knobs
Walt Disney's Donald Duck
Snuffy Smith and Barney Google
Alley Oop

Vol 1, #17 (September 10, 1978) (comics)

The first comics ran on Sunday, September 10, three daily strips all dated September 9. Inside Woody Allen, Nubbin and The Flop Family.  This is the only appearance of Woody Allen in this paper, the strip usually running in the NY Daily News and at the moment, in the City News strike paper.

• Vol 1, #23 (September 17, 1978) (comics)

Two pages ran on Sunday, September 17, all correctly dated; The Good Old Days, Knobs, Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.

• Vol 1, #29 (September 24, 1978) (comics)

The same 4 features appeared the following Sunday, correctly dated on September 24; The Good Old Days, Knobs, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and Walt Disney's Donald Duck.

• Vol 1, #35 (October 1, 1978) (comics)

The final appearance of comics in this newspaper was the following Sunday, October 1.  Alley Oop is now added to the mix with Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Knobs, all correctly dated.

3) NEW YORK DAILY PRESS  

 8/21/78 to 11/4-5/78 

(64 issues)

I possess the entire 64 issue run of the New York Daily Press, a tabloid that most closely resembled  the New York Daily News in layout and visual appeal.

***** As I will note several times below, unfortunately, I cannot locate 19 issues of this strike paper, from October 7 through October 29.  I know I have them, but for the life of me, just cannot presently find them. In the future, when they turn up (and they will), I'll update them here.*****

It debuted the same day as The New York Daily Metro, Monday, August 21. Writer/columnist Bill Reel of The News contributed an opening piece so now I see News writers in both City News and the Daily Press, as a cross-pollination of talent occurred. Political cartoonist Doug Marlette appeared on the editorial page.

The second issue of The New York Daily Press, August 22, gave an excellent history of the interim strike newspapers that popped up in response to the 1962-63, 114-day strike :

The Daily Report
Metropolitan Daily
The Chronicle
The Brooklyn Eagle (not the older, defunct one)
The New York Daily
The New York Standard

COVER IMAGES:
Vol 1, #1 -  August 21, 1978

Vol 1, #2 -  August 22, 1978

Vol 1, #3 -  August 23, 1978

Vol 1, #4 -  August 24, 1978

Vol 1, #5 -  August 25, 1978

Vol 1, #6 -  August 26-27, 1978

Vol 1, #7 -  August 28, 1978

Vol 1, #8 -  August 29, 1978

Vol 1, #9 -  August 30, 1978

Vol 1, #10 -  August 31, 1978

Vol 1, #11 -  September 1, 1978

Vol 1, #12 -  September 2-3, 1978

Vol 1, #13 -  September 5, 1978

Vol 1, #14 -  September 6, 1978

Vol 1, #15 -  September 7, 1978

Vol 1, #16 -  September 8, 1978

Vol 1, #17 -  September 9-10, 1978

Vol 1, #18 -  September 11, 1978

Vol 1, #19 -  September 12, 1978

Vol 1, #20 -  September 13, 1978

Vol 1, #21 -  September 14, 1978

Vol 1, #22 -  September 15, 1978

Vol 1, #23 -  September 16-17, 1978

I have two different versions of this weekend edition. In all honesty, I didn't even know there were separate printings and discovered this 40 years later, during the writing of this blog article. My original copy purchased was the Late edition. Here below, I just found an Early edition from before the fight decision late Saturday night.

Early Edition [A]

Late Edition [B]

Vol 1, #24 -  September 18, 1978

Vol 1, #25 -  September 19, 1978

Vol 1, #26 -  September 20, 1978

Vol 1, #27 -  September 21, 1978

Vol 1, #28 -  September 22, 1978

• Vol 1, #29 -  September 23-24, 1978

Vol 1, #30 -  September 25, 1978

Vol 1, #31 -  September 26, 1978

Vol 1, #32 -  September 27, 1978

• Vol 1, #33 -  September 28, 1978

Vol 1, #34 -  September 29, 1978

• Vol 1, #35 -  September 30 / October 1, 1978

Vol 1, #36 - October 2, 1978

• Vol 1, #37 - October 3, 1978

• Vol 1, #38 - October 4, 1978

• Vol 1, #39 - October 5, 1978

• Vol 1, #40 - October 6, 1978

***** At this point, unfortunately, I cannot locate the next 19 issues of this strike paper, except for October 20 below, which I found incomplete last year.  I know I have them, but for the life of me, just cannot presently find them. In the future, when they turn up (and they will), I'll update them here.*****

• Vol 1, #51 - October 20, 1978

• Vol 1, #59 - October 30, 1978

• Vol 1, #60 - October 31, 1978

• Vol 1, #61 - November 1, 1978

• Vol 1, #62 - November 2, 1978

• Vol 1, #63 - November 3, 1978

• Vol 1, #64 - November 4-5, 1978

COMICS:
Without a doubt, The New York Daily Press had the most professional comics section of all the strike newspapers. Every single issue sported a full page of dailies and 99% of the time a second half page. These were all correctly dated and layed out in a professional manner, a great improvement to the careless way City News and the New York Metro published theirs. 9 daily strips ran the most of the length of the paper's duration, two were single panel strips. Then at the 3/4 mark the line-up changed.

Popeye
Walt Disney's Donald Duck
Mr. Abernathy
Mandrake the magician
Redeye
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
Tiger
The Small Society
Trudy

Then......

Rooftop O'Toole
Wee Pals
Tarzan
Eb and Flo
The Dropouts
Boomer
Knobs

• Vol 1, #1 - August 21, 1978

Vol 1, #2 - August 22, 1978

Vol 1, #3 - August 23, 1978

Vol 1, #4 - August 24, 1978

• Vol 1, #5 - August 25, 1978

• Vol 1, #6 - August 26-27, 1978

The weekend edition, only one single page of Saturday's dailies.

• Vol 1, #7 - August 28, 1978

• Vol 1, #8 - August 29, 1978

• Vol 1, #9 - August 30, 1978

• Vol 1, #10 - August 31, 1978

• Vol 1, #11 - September 1, 1978

• Vol 1, #12 - September 3, 1978

The Sunday edition (no Saturday this week), only one single page of Saturday's dailies.

• Vol 1, #13 - September 5, 1978

• Vol 1, #14 - September 6, 1978

• Vol 1, #15 - September 7, 1978

• Vol 1, #16 - September 8, 1978

• Vol 1, #17 - September 9-10, 1978

• Vol 1, #18 - September 11, 1978

• Vol 1, #19 - September 12, 1978

Vol 1, #20 - September 13, 1978

• Vol 1, #21 - September 14, 1978

Vol 1, #22 - September 15, 1978

• Vol 1, #23 - September 16-17, 1978

Vol 1, #24 - September 18, 1978

• Vol 1, #25 - September 19, 1978

• Vol 1, #26 -  September 20, 1978

Vol 1, #27 -  September 21, 1978

• Vol 1, #28 -  September 22, 1978

• Vol 1, #29 -  September 23-24, 1978

• Vol 1, #30 -  September 25, 1978

• Vol 1, #31 -  September 26, 1978

Vol 1, #32 -  September 27, 1978

Spread over three pages this time.

Vol 1, #33 -  September 28, 1978

• Vol 1, #34 -  September 29, 1978

 Color Comics are advertised for the upcoming weekend edition.

• Vol 1, #35 -  September 30 / October 1, 1978

 I had this color comics section stored elsewhere from the daily papers. I just discovered it in a manila envelope labeled "misc. Sunday comics!"  Could this be the only copy in existence????

• Vol 1, #36 - October 2, 1978

 Running comic strips from Saturday, September 30.

• Vol 1, #37 - October 3, 1978

 Running comics dated October 2.

A full page ad announcing future Sunday edition color comics sections that I never, ever saw while working at the actual newsstand! Did they exist after that first one above? Did it have spotty distribution? To this day I have no idea.

• Vol 1, #38 - October 4, 1978

• Vol 1, #39 - October 5, 1978

• Vol 1, #40 - October 6, 1978

***** At this point, unfortunately, I cannot locate the next 19 issues of this strike paper. I know I have them, but for the life of me, just cannot presently find them. In the future, when they turn up (and they will), I'll update them here.*****

• Vol 1, #59 - October 30, 1978

The comics line-up has changed since the last day posted 19 days ago....

• Vol 1, #60 - October 31, 1978

• Vol 1, #61 - November 1, 1978

• Vol 1, #62 - November 2, 1978

• Vol 1, #63 - November 3, 1978

• Vol 1, #64 - November 4-5, 1978

BRUCE STARK:

Famed New York Daily News caricaturist and sports cartoonist Bruce Stark plied his craft  several times a week in the New York Daily Press, often on the back page. (His News compatriot Bill Gallo was over doing the same thing simultaneously in City News).

• Vol 1, #13 - September 5, 1978

• Vol 1, #15 - September 7, 1978

• Vol 1, #17 - September 9-10, 1978

Vol 1, #18 - September 12, 1978

• Vol 1, #21 - September 14, 1978

Vol 1, #22 - September 15, 1978

• Vol 1, #25 - September 19, 1978

• Vol 1, #27 -  September 21, 1978

• Vol 1, #29 -  September 23-24, 1978

• Vol 1, #31 -  September 26, 1978

Vol 1, #33 -  September 28, 1978

Vol 1, #35 -  September 30 / October 1, 1978

• Vol 1, #39 - October 5, 1978

***** At this point, unfortunately, I cannot locate the next 19 issues of this strike paper. I know I have them, but for the life of me, just cannot presently find them. In the future, when they turn up (and they will), I'll update them here.*****

• Vol 1, 60 - October 31, 1978

• Vol 1, #62 - November 2, 1978

• Vol 1, #64 - November 4-5, 1978

NEWS:

Below follows a smattering of news stories that caught my eye over the course of this paper's tenure. Strike news will be presented as well as whatever else I think would be interesting to note.

• Vol 1, #3 - August 23, 1978

The cast of the hit television series Happy Days at Shea Stadium.

• Vol 1, #6 - August 26-27, 1978

Major League Baseball umpires go out on strike. The walkout lasts a single day........

• Vol 1, #7 - August 28, 1978

NY Cosmos win the soccer championship..........

Death of screen legend Charles Boyer.............

• Vol 1, #8 - August 29, 1978

Death of actor Robert Shaw.........

• Vol 1, #9 - August 30, 1978

Boxing's Muhammad Ali training for return fight with Leon Spinks next month.

• Vol 1, #10 - August 31, 1978

Strike news....

• Vol 1, #12 - September 2-3, 1978

Strike news......

• Vol 1, #13 - September 5, 1978

Yankee ace Ron Guidry wins his 20th game of the season en route to a Cy Young award 25-3 season..

Muhammad Ali training for Ali/Spinks II.......

• Vol 1, #14 - September 6, 1978

TV's Incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno.

• Vol 1, #15 - September 7, 1978

House Select Committee on Assassinations begins a re-probe of the JFK and MLK assassinations.

Strike news. NY Post publisher Rupert Murdoch in hot water for strike shenanigans.

New York Mets favorite Ed Kranepool in a rut.

Actor Jack Lemmon on the NY streets while on Broadway.......

• Vol 1, #16 - September 8, 1978

House Select Committee on Assassinations brutal editorial and then contradictory story.

The Who drummer Keith Moon is found dead.

• Vol 1, #18 - September 11, 1978

A poignant coincidence, coverage of sailboat race around island of Manhattan give beautiful vistas of The Battery and the World Trade Center towers ... on September 11, 1978. 

More Ali/Spinks II run-up coverage.......

Death of Hollywood legend Jack Warner jazz great Billy Taylor playing in town.

Back in 1960 my father appeared in the same Hickory House ad with Billy Taylor, running in the March 6, 1960 New York Sunday Mirror.....

• Vol 1, #19 - September 12, 1978

More pre Ali/Spinks II coverage.......

Vol 1, #20 - September 13, 1978

Ali/Spinks II coverage continues.....

Richard Nixon resurfaces in New York.

House Select Committee on Assassinations again showing that it was a farcical affair.

• Vol 1, #21 - September 14, 1978

Concern mounts for the aging Muhammad Ali in his upcoming fight with Leon Spinks. Dr. Pacheco was on the money with his assessment, although Pacheco would outlive Ali by only 17 months, passing away in 2017. Ali would subsequently have decades of  neurodegenerative decline, "Parkinsonian Syndrome", likely brought on by decades of head trauma experienced in the boxing ring.

Marina Oswald testifies for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Robin Williams debuts in Mork and Mindy during an hour-long premiere episode.

Abe Vigoda's Barney Miller spin-off Fish is cancelled.

• Vol 1, #22 - September 15, 1978

Ali/Spinks II weigh-in........

Vol 1, #23 - September 16-17, 1978

Ali/Spinks II :

Early Edition  pre-fight cover [A] :

Early Edition pre-fight back cover [A] :

The champ again! (And Ron Guidry is now 22-2)

Late Edition:

Late Edition back cover :

House Select Committee on Assassinations:

Morganna the Kissing Bandit.......

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Will Ed Kranepool return in 1979? (He does, for his final season with the Mets, from 1962-1979)

The debut of Battlestar Galactica pilot, with a Frank Frazetta ad.......

• Vol 1, #24 - September 18, 1978

Strike news.....

Ali/Spinks II aftermath....

Mork & Mindy debut reviewed.....

• Vol 1, #25 - September 19, 1978

Strike news......

Muhammad Ali news......

King Tut exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens......

Mid-East Peace Summit.........

Vol 1, #26 - September 20, 1978

Smothers Brothers on Broadway...........

Muhammad Ali returns home......

Doug Marlette cartoon.......

NY State allows female boxers to be licensed.....

House Select Committee on Assassinations - Fidel Castro testifies.....

• Vol 1, #27 -  September 21, 1978

O.J. Simpson..........

Olympic hero Bruce Jenner and wife with newborn son............

• Vol 1, #28 -  September 22, 1978

Strike news.......

Gerald Ford testifies at the House Select Committee on Assassinations......

"95" year old Ragtime composer Eubie Blake honored on Broadway. You know how old Eubie Blake was in 1978? Old enough to have actually known Scott Joplin!! (Which he did!) [Eubie was actually 91 at this time, having somehow added 4 years to his age later in life.]

Scarce New York Mets coverage in this paper.....

Young prosecutor Linda Fairstein gets her first big sex crimes conviction, Dr. Marvin Teicher, who molested women under general anesthesia, and was done in by a policewoman posing as a patient while videotape was recording the entire thing.

• Vol 1, #29 -  September 23-24, 1978

Strike news.......

 House Select Committee on Assassinations......

Edger Bergan retires.......

Eubie Blake........

Maestro Vladimir Horowitz makes a celebrated return.......

• Vol 1, #30 -  September 25, 1978

Strike coverage......

Baseball mourns the murder of Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock........

Eubie Blake......

NY Yankees Ron Guidry is now 23-3......

Scarce NY Mets news.....

Convicted sex crimes dentist loses his license.....

Porn publisher Al Goldstein celebrates his acquittal......

World's smallest TV, circa 1978. Predates the Sony Watchman (which I still have!).

• Vol 1, #31 -  September 26, 1978

Worst air disaster in United States history (as of  1978). That record has been surpassed in the ensuing 40 years, placing this San Diego disaster in 9th place.

House Select Committee on Assassinations........

New York Yankees.....

Lyman Bostock's killer caught......

Patty Hearst seeks a pardon.....

• Vol 1, #32 -  September 27, 1978

San Diego plane crash aftermath......

Strike news.......

New York Mets in the midst of the worst years in their history......

Who the heck is this guy? I don't think he ever actually worked as "the" Bozo the Clown. I think he was "a" Bozo, some other clown, who happened to be named Bozo. Anybody else know?

• Vol 1, #33 -  September 28, 1978

Ron Guidry and Yankees......

Female reporters are now allowed in men's lockerooms.....

The New York Mets finally with some positive news, pitcher Craig Swan wins ERA title for the last place club......

Sobering photos of San Diego plane crash right before impact......

George Gershwin tribute on what would have been the composer's 80th birthday......

The Rolling Stones to be on Saturday Night Live.......

• Vol 1, #34 -  September 29, 1978

Yankee news..........

House Select Committee on Assassinations......

San Diego plane crash inquiry continues.....

Price of automobiles is rising........

  

Humorist Fran Liebowitz after her best-selling first book..........

Vol 1, #35 -  September 30 / October 1, 1978

The big news is the death of Pope John Paul I.......

The NY Yankees.......

The New York Mets.....

10th Anniversary of Super Bowl III Jets victory..............

Strike News.....

Vol 1, #36 -  October 2, 1978

Yankee regular season ends in a tie with Boston. Playoff!

While the Mets win their final game, in the cellar for the second year in a row.....

Meanwhile, in other baseball news..... hard to believe this mentality existed as late as 1978.....

Not yet the all-time hit leader, Pete Rose will play until 1986 at age 45.......

Pope death coverage continues......

Strike news. Looks like the New York Post will be the first paper back.....

Just days after announcing his retirement, Edgar Bergen dies......

And in music news...... Bob Dylan.....

I didn't realize bandleader Harry James was still playing in 1978............

Vol 1, #37 - October 3, 1978

For Boston Red Sox fans, the phrase has rung on for 40 years now... "Bucky effing Dent!!@$$#@!"

More Baseball, George Foster of the Big Red Machine......

San Diego plane crash cockpit voices......

Ted Kennedy's self-induced millstone around his neck.......

The strike continues but the NY Post is coming back earlier than the Times and News. Folks are furious with Post publisher Rupert Murdoch

This didn't turn out that well.......

The pope's funeral.....

Some strange Led Zeppelin news......

• Vol 1, #38 - October 4, 1978

Yankees/Bucky Dent aftermath.....

Pope John Paul I funeral services.....

Strike news............

Strange C.I.A. official death.....

I remember this news item about John Paisley. In the cauldron of the House Select Committee on Assassinations and revelations that came out of "that" investigation, the scenario proposed in the news item rings hollow. A little digging gives more background on this HERE - (John Paisley theories)


Vladimir Horowitz at STUDIO 54 in the club's heyday.......

An ad for what is probably the 4th incarnation of the famed watering hole, Toots passing away the previous year in 1977.  My ancillary connection to this is that completely coincidentally, I was Toot's wife, Marion's dentist the last 10 years of her life, as well as Toot's pal Jackie Gleason's first wife's last dentist!

• Vol 1, #39 - October 5, 1978

The Pope's funeral.......

Yankees win game 2 of A.L. Plaayoffs, but where was the coverage of game 1????? Yesterday's paper didn't carry it!

Strike news, Metro ending and the NY Post is returning......

Martin Luther King murderer James Earl Ray to marry.....

More to the murder of C.I.A. official John Paisley than meets the eye......

Apparently still not yet publicly known.....

• Vol 1, #40 - October 6, 1978

Baseball playoffs.....

10th Anniversary of Jets Superbowl victory........

Strike news.. New York Post goes back to publishing.....

Pope...........

Patty Hearst......

LOOK Magazine starts publishing again after a hiatus of 7 years.............

***** At this point, unfortunately, I cannot locate the next 19 issues of this strike paper, except for October 20 below, which I found last year. I know I have them, but for the life of me, just cannot presently find them. In the future, when they turn up (and they will), I'll update them here.*****

• Vol 1, #50 - October 20, 1978

The big news is the Yankees World Series win!

Parade insert....

Pope news....

Bill Reel column: The Marlboro man has lung cancer. From smoking.

• Vol 1, #59 - October 30, 1978

Strike news.....

• Vol 1, #60 - October 31, 1978

Strike news........

40th Anniversary of Orson Wells' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast......

75th Anniversary of the New York City subways..........

Lake Placid getting ready for 1980 Winter Olympics.............

• Vol 1, #61 - November 1, 1978

New York Yankee news.......

New York Mets news concerning their absolutely horrific Chairman of the Board and CEO, M. Donald Grant, a bitter, shriveled, frugal throwback to the early years of plantation style team ownership.......

Future film star and present (circa 1978) Bodybuilding star Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the Mike Douglas Show! (Strangely co-hosted by The Captain and Tennille)

• Vol 1, #62 - November 2, 1978

Strike news.........

New York Yankees star Ron Guidry wins the Cy Young Award..........

And is also on the front cover....

New York Mets stalwart Ed Kranepool is sighted at a charity event. Will he return next year? He will for his 18th and last season with the Mets......

*** (Coincidentally, Ed Kranepool has been in the News several times this year, 2018, highlighting his quest for a kidney donor for himself. I wish you the very best, Steady Eddie!") ***

• Vol 1, #63 - November 3, 1978

Strike news... Rupert Murdoch sues the New York Daily News!

Yankee news...... 

Rachel Robinson with Reggie Jackson........

New York Mets news.... Cheapskate organization run into the ground by incompetence.....

Animated film Watership Down debuts....

Horrible film, Bee Gees version of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.....

• Vol 1, #64 - November 4-5, 1978

Strike news....... Announcement that this is the last issue of the NEW YORK DAILY PRESS by publishers Gary and Mark Stern.

The strike is over but the TIMES doesn't have enough.. time... to get out a Sunday edition........

Appliance store blames their sale on the newspaper strike.......

Did this ever appear? House ad advertising a woman's version of this very newspaper to start in December! 

Eubie Blake! Always fudging his age! He's actually only 91 here.

Yankee and Mets news. The Mets actually picked new free agent Peter Rose first in the draft. The sports writers advised against the 37 year old "washed-up" Rose, who only went on to play 8 more years and set the all-time hit record at 4256 total base hits.

Quite possibly the most iconic photograph to come out of the Viet Nam war (the other being the naked fleeingVietnamese "napalm girl"), it's interesting to see Nguyen Ngoc Loan settled in the United States as a restaurant owner. Although the article says the US government is looking to deport him for war crimes.  President Jimmy Carter intervened and I  believe he stayed in the US until his death in 1998.

4) NEW YORK GRAPHIC  

 8/29/78 (?) to ?

(? issues)

The New York Graphic was the "strike" paper with the least newsstand distribution. I worked at that newsstand all summer, into fall, and we only received 8 total issues of this periodical. The first issue I saw was Vol 1, #5 (September 2, 1978), so back-tracking gives the debut as August 29. The final edition seen was Vol 1, #19 (September 17, 1978), making its actual end unknown to me. The paper was very attractively laid out inside, although thin, barely 38 pages at most, seemingly devoid of all the store ads found in City News and New York Daily Metro. It also had a very nice comics section! My coverage here will be only based on what I have and my knowledge of this publication is minimal.

• Vol 1, 5 - September 2, 1978

• Vol 1, 6 - September 3, 1978

• Vol 1, 7 - September 5, 1978

• Vol 1, 8 - September 6, 1978

• Vol 1, 15 - September 13, 1978

• Vol 1, 17 - September 15, 1978

• Vol 1, 18 - September 16, 1978 (mistakenly numbered Vol 1, #16) 

• Vol 1, 19 - September 16, 1978

COMICS:
The New York Graphic had a nice little comics page, including a 7-page black-and-white Sunday comics section in the main paper, rather than a separate wrap. Features consisted of.....

Flash Gordon
Hi and Lois
Steve Canyon
Walt Disney's Scamp
Dr. Kildare
Brick Bradford
The Katzenjammer Kids
Juliet Jones
Hubert
Little Iodine
The Little Woman
Moose Miller
Modesty Blaise

• Vol 1, 5 - September 2, 1978

• Vol 1, 6 - September 3, 1978

Seven pages of black-and-white Sunday comics.

• Vol 1, 7 - September 5, 1978

• Vol 1, 8 - September 6, 1978

• Vol 1, 15 - September 13, 1978

• Vol 1, 17 - September 15, 1978

• Vol 1, 18 - September 16, 1978 (mistakenly numbered Vol 1, #16) 

•  Vol 1, 19 - September 17, 1978

Three pages of black-and-white Sunday comics.

VIC CANTONE:
Long time New York Daily News political cartoonist Vic Cantone contributed to every single issue of the New York Graphic that I have, often twice!

• Vol 1, 5 - September 2, 1978

• Vol 1, 6 - September 3, 1978

• Vol 1, 7 - September 5, 1978

• Vol 1, 8 - September 6, 1978

• Vol 1, 15 - September 13, 1978

• Vol 1, 17 - September 15, 1978

• Vol 1, 18 - September 16, 1978 (mistakenly numbered Vol 1, #16)

• Vol 1, 19 - September 17, 1978

NEWS:
Below, once again, items from the New York Graphic that I particularly find interesting and worth mentioning. Only 8 issues were able to be acquired. Notable, I found (although not shown here), was the fact that 2 issues ran the exact same centerfold spread, really making me wonder how closely this editor was watching!

• Vol 1, 5 - September 2, 1978

The strike..........

Former NY Mets star Tom Seaver.....

Sonny and Cher divorce news.....

Eubie Blake's "Eubie!" will be opening on Broadway..............

• Vol 1, 6 - September 3, 1978

Star Trek convention at the Statler Hilton hotel.......

Ali-Spinks II prologue......

New York Mets news......

• Vol 1, 7 - September 5, 1978

Yankees' Ron Guidry wins 20th game en route to a 25-3 Cy Young Award season...... 

Strike news......

The Beatles.......

Rudolph Valentino's relative visits his crypt......

Leo Tolstoy's daughter.........

• Vol 1, 8 - September 6, 1978

Leonard Nimoy......

New York Mets news..........

• Vol 1, 15 - September 13, 1978

Strike news.......

House Select Committee on Assassinations............

Archie Bunker......

Three's Company makes stars out of unknowns..........

New York Graphic house ad....  

• Vol 1, 17 - September 15, 1978

Ali-Spinks II........

House Select Committee on Assassinations............

Jack Albertson........

New York Mets......

New York Graphic house ad....  

• Vol 1, 18 - September 16, 1978 (mistakenly numbered Vol 1, #16)

 Strike news........

Ali wins!!!!! (only as a last minute back-page blurb)

Baseball's Jim Bouton returns.....

New York Mets news.......

Death of famed German fighter plane designer......

• Vol 1, 19 - September 17, 1978 

Strike news.......

Ali-Spinks II aftermath......

Eubie Blake...........

Battlestar Galactica.........

New York Mets news......

New York Graphic house ad...........

THE STRIKE IS OVER! 

Part 1:

The first newspaper to return was the New York Post, on October 5, 1978, effectively ending the run of the interim strike paper, New York Daily Metro, with the pressmen accepting the new contract with Rupert Murdoch.

The New York Post of October 5 also included an 8-page section highlighting their 56 "lost days" (from August 10 to October 4) or readers to catch up (as if they hadn't been reading Murdoch's Daily Metro!)

Additionally, the New York Post highlighted the fact that the Daily News and New York Times were still on strike.....

Part 2:

As mentioned above, the New York Post had returned on October 5, 1978 (and the subsequent cessation of the New York Daily Metro).

Following the Friday publication of  City News Vol 1, #67 (November 3, 1978) and then weekend edition of The New York Daily Press, Vol 1, #64 (November 4-5, 1978), after 88 long days, the strike was officially over and the New York Daily News returned on Monday November 6, 1978.

And there you have it! A review of all the strike newspapers utilizing the original sources. I will add to this article as time goes on when  I can locate my missing issues.

SOURCES:

All newspapers presented above were sourced from the author's collection. All scans, cropping and cleaning up were performed by the author.