Already mentioned by Lateralus in his ⛓️‍💥[Removed] post.

Personally, I found knock-off orphan girl Annie Rooney ⚠️ ↗ much cuter than her blunked-out androgynous prototype.

But for my money, the adventure comic strip had no greater exemplar than Milton Caniff's ⚠️ ↗Terry & The Pirates.

All fans of American funnybooks owe a debt to the adventure strip ( 1932-1972 [ the '72 paper shortage shrank the size of strips permanently and made any survivors mere ghosts of their former selves.]) While comic books were the ghetto of the form, their creators dreamed of and emulated their newspaper heroes. Comic book stars like Jack Kirby and Wallace Wood grew up tracing the work of Hal Foster ( Prince Valiant,) Alex Raymond ( Flash Gordon) and Milton Caniff. The style of American comic books for 40 years can't be understood without reference to this trinity; any more than the ligne claire of French B.D. can be understood without reference to Herge, or the style of postwar Manga without reference to Osamu Tezuka.

Dante