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<HEAD><TITLE>Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Apartment 3-G </TITLE> <script language="JavaScript"></script> <META name = "author" content = "Donald D. Markstein"> <META name = "description" content = "Hypertext encyclopedia of comics and animation"> <META name = "subject" content = "Hypertext encyclopedia of comics and animation"> <META name = "keywords" content = "comic books animated cartoons animation comics comix syndicated comic strips"> <META name = "publisher" content = "Donald D. Markstein"> <META name = "format" content = "text/html"> <META name = "language" content = "EN"> </HEAD><BODY> <body onload="if (self!= top) top.location = self.location"></body> <BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" TEXT="000000" LINK="0000EE" VLINK="551A8B"> <TABLE><TR><TD WIDTH=350 VALIGN="CENTER"><IMG GALLERYIMG="NO" ALIGN="LEFT" HEIGHT=202 WIDTH=340 ALT="The sidewalk in front of Apartment 3-G. Artist: Alex Kotzky." SRC="apt_3g.jpg"> <TD VALIGN="CENTER"> <H1>APARTMENT 3-G</H1><FONT SIZE=4> <B>Medium:</B> Newspaper comics <BR><B>Distributed by: </B>Publishers Syndicate <BR><B>First Appeared:</B> 1961 <BR><B>Creator:</B> Nicholas P. Dallis <FONT SIZE=3> <! BEGIN DONATION CODE> <HR><FONT SIZE=2 COLOR="993366"><CENTER> If this site is enjoyable or useful to you, <BR>Please contribute to its necessary financial support. <BR><A HREF="http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/T1237L0BCY25QA" TARGET="_blank">Amazon.com</A> or <A HREF="https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=don%40toonopedia.com&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_cod e=USD" TARGET="_blank">PayPal</A> </FONT></CENTER><HR> <! END DONATION CODE> <P><A NAME="cont"> Nicholas P. Dallis started as a psychiatrist, but branched out into writing soap opera comics in 1948, when he created <I><A HREF="morgan.htm">Rex Morgan, M.D.</A></I> Apparently, this  <P ALIGN="RIGHT"><A HREF="#cont"><FONT SIZE=2><I>continued below</A></FONT> </TABLE> <CENTER><! BEGIN ADSENSE "LEADERBOARD" CODE> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <! END ADSENSE CODE></CENTER> <P><TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP"> avocation agreed with him, as he added <A HREF="parker.htm"><I>Judge Parker</A></I> in 1952. <I>Apartment 3-G</I> was the third and last of his comic strip creations — but apparently his favorite, as it was the only one he continued writing when, in 1990, he retired from <I>Morgan</I> and <I>Parker.</I> All three started out at Publishers Syndicate (<A HREF="great-bk.htm">Tales from the Great Book</A>) but are now distributed by <A HREF="king.htm">King Features</A> (<A HREF="fgordon.htm">Flash Gordon</A>). <P> <I>Apartment 3-G</I> opened on May 8, 1961. Its inhabitants were three young and very realistically-portrayed working women — a blonde (schoolteacher LuAnn Powers), a brunette (actors' agent Margo Magee) and a redhead (medical woman Tommie Thompson). Their soap-style adventures in New York City, which often include their avuncular neighbor, Professor Aristotle Papagoras, have held readers' interest in more than 100 newspapers, for the past five decades. <P> Alex Kotzky, who drew the strip for more than three of those decades, started out in comic books, where he illustrated such diverse features as <I><A HREF="blakhawk.htm">Blackhawk</A></I> and <I><A HREF="plas.htm">Plastic Man,</A></I> and had a hand in creating <A href="quality.htm">Quality Comics'</A> <A HREF="manhntrq.htm">Manhunter.</A> He later worked in newspaper comics, assisting Milton Caniff on <I><A HREF="canyon.htm">Steve Canyon</I></A> and Stan Drake on <A HREF="juliet_j.htm"><I>The Heart of Juliet Jones.</A></I> For <I>Apartment 3-G,</I> he chose a photo-realistic style, unlike most of his earlier work, but very much in tune with the prevailing trend in comic strip soap operas such as <I><A HREF="marywrth.htm">Mary Worth</A></I> and <I><A HREF="friday.htm">Friday Foster.</A></I> When Dallis died, in 1991, he began writing the strip as well. <P> Kotzky died in 1996. <I>Apartment 3-G</I> is now written by Lisa Trusiani, who has credits at both <A HREF="marvel.htm">Marvel</A> and <A HREF="dc.htm">DC,</A> and drawn by Frank Bolle, whose extensive comics experience runs the gamut from <I><A HREF="winnie.htm">Winnie Winkle</A></I> to <A HREF="heap.htm">The Heap.</A> <P> After all these years, Apartment 3-G is still shared by the same three women — who don't seem to have aged a bit, by the way. 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