An Altar Boy Named Speck, also named Speck the Altar Boy is a newspaper comic strip. It ran from 1953 until 1974. It was created by Tut le Blanc and Margaret Ahern. Tut Le Blanc drew the strip from 1953 to 1954, and then Margaret Ahern took over the duties from 1955 to 1979. It relates the story of a mischievous but lovable youngster who keeps getting into some trouble or the other.
Famous quotes containing the words altar, boy, named and/or speck:
“You need make for me only an altar of earth and sacrifice...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 20:24.
“A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“I know, it must have been my imagination, but it makes me realize how desperately alone the Earth is. Hanging in space like a speck of food floating in the ocean. Sooner or later to be swallowed up by some creature floating by.... Time will tell, Dr. Mason. We can only wait and wonder. Wonder how, wonder when.”
—Tom Graeff. Young astronomer, Teenagers from Outer Space, after just seeing the invading spaceship through his telescope, and dismissing it (1959)