Rick O'Shay 5/20/1977

I believe this is by Alfredo Alcala. Stan Lynde left the strip after a contract dispute with the syndicate. According to Lynde, his last strip was on May 7, 1977. The strip continued with a different writer and Alfredo Alcala on art. So even though the strip I have is signed by Lynde, it could be an Alcala strip. It looks like Lynde's artwork, but Alcala was a monstrously talented artist who could have easily aped Lynde's style, as would have been a requirement of the job in taking over the strip. But maybe Lynde worked so far in advance that when the dispute with the syndicate came to a head, he already had several weeks more already done. (Lynde doesn't mention the dispute at all in his memoir.) One factor supporting the Alcala theory is that much of Lynde's original artwork was lost in a fire at his house in Montana. So not that many Lynde originals are circulating out in the world.