The strip survived the ban, but like the others became a conventional adventure strip.
Comic strip historians regard Lance as one of the great adventure strips.
Roy Crane was one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip.
He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establishing the conventions and artistic approach of that genre.
They were the first non-humorous adventure strips, and both were adaptations.
It's the return of the romantic adventure comic strip!
Although these were turned down, he tried again, submitting a script for a sea-going adventure strip.
For that last title he went on to do his first adventure strip, "Rusty and his Pals".
Commissioned by The Sun in 1978, the series was designed as a daily three-panel adventure strip.
It was popular enough at first, and ran far longer than most post-war adventure strips, but the times were against it.