Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for March 24-30, 2017...

125 years ago March 24, 1892 Rex Maxon is born. The Tarzan artist who follows Harold Foster on the strip co-creates Turok with Matt Murphy.

90 years ago March 27, 1927 Cartoonist Hy Eisman is born. He writes and draws The Katzenjammer Kids and Popeye Sunday strips.

80 years ago March 26, 1937 Popeye is honored with the dedication of a statue of the E.C. Segar creation in Crystal City, Texas (“Spinach Capital” of the U.S.).

60 years ago March 28, 1957 Influential writer and artist Jack Butler Yeats dies at age 85. In 1893, he created what may have been the first serial comic strip, Chubblock Homes, for Comic Cuts.

60 years ago March 29, 1957 Anima writer and co-creator (with Paul Witcover) Elizabeth Hand is born.

55 years ago March 27, 1962 Inker John Floyd is born.

55 years ago March 28, 1962 Hitchcock guru, DC staffer, editor of many DC projects, and DC Marketing Communications Manager Adam Philips is born.

45 years ago March 26, 1972 Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean begins from Field Enterprises.

35 years ago March 27, 1982 IPC Media relaunches Eagle.

35 years ago March 28, 1982 Underground comix creator Dave Sheridan dies of a brain hemorrhage at age 38. His output included creation of “Dealer McDope,” the design for the “Black Death Malt Liquor” shirt worn by “Dr. Johnny Fever” on WKRP in Cincinnati, and his collaboration (with Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides) on The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

30 years ago March 27, 1987 Patrick Troughton dies of a heart attack at age 67. He played the second Doctor in the BBC’s Doctor Who series.

25 years ago March 26, 1992 Topps announces creation of its comics division, edited by Jim Salicrup.

10 years ago March 24, 2007 Artist Marshall Rogers dies at age 57 of a possible heart attack. He was especially known for his work on Batman, Scorpio Rose, and his creation Cap’n Quick & a Foozle.