There are many famous comic strips and creators that have been justly celebrated, studied and collected: Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates ); Chester Gould ( Dick Tracy ); Hal Foster ( Tarzan; Prince Valiant ); Alex Raymond ( Flash Gordon ); Harold Gray ( Little Orphan Annie ); Charles Schulz ( Peanuts ) to name but a few, but one strip sits in relative obscurity despite an extraordinary sixty-two year tenure. Why? Because that comic strip was buried inside a monthly retail magazine that catered to the Hardware business. The cover to Forty Years with Mister Oswald, published in 1968 by the National Retail Hardware Association. The story of Russ Johnson is fascinating on many levels. Johnson was not only a talented cartoonist, but a businessman who took over ownership of his father's Hardware store and ran the operation for decades. His first hand experiences as a store owner were the gist for many stories he devised. In the introduction Johnson tells of his father
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