Crock is an American comic strip created by Bill Rechin and Brant Parker depicting the French Foreign Legion . Distributed by King Features Syndicate , the strip began in 1975 and ended in May 2012. As of January 2012 , it appeared in 250 newspapers in 14 countries.
4-530: [REDACTED] Look up crock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crock may refer to: Crock (comic strip) , a daily comic strip that was published from 1975 to 2012 Crock (dishware) , a stoneware pot See also [ edit ] Croc (disambiguation) Krock (disambiguation) Croque Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-533: The May 20, 2012 Sunday comic . Reprints of older strips by Bill Rechin have continued to run. King Features describes Crock as "the greatest and longest-running parody of the Foreign Legion classic, Beau Geste ," written in 1924 by P. C. Wren and filmed several times. The comic strip is set in the middle of a barren desert at a desolate fort, where the tyrannical and corrupt Commandant Vermin P. Crock rules over
12-469: The title Crock . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crock&oldid=1125699531 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Crock (comic strip) Don Wilder took over
16-484: The writing duties in 1976 as Parker returned his focus to The Wizard of Id . After Wilder's death in 2008, Bill Rechin also wrote the strip. When Bill Rechin was stricken with esophageal cancer in 2010, his son Kevin Rechin began to assist him with drawing it and his son-in-law Bob Morgan became the writer. On Bill Rechin's death, Kevin Rechin and Morgan continued the strip until publication of new Crock strips ended with
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