Editing Charlie Chan (section)

== Comics and games ==
[[File:Charliechan060640.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.82|Alfred Andriola's ''Charlie Chan'' (6 June 1940)]]

A ''Charlie Chan'' [[comic strip]], drawn by [[Alfred Andriola]], was distributed by the [[McNaught Syndicate]] beginning October 24, 1938.<ref>Young (2007), 128. Ma (2000), 13 gives the dates as 1935 to 1938; however, Young's obituary in ''The New York Times'' states that the strip began in 1938.</ref> Andriola was chosen by Biggers to draw the character.<ref name="Ma 2000, 13">Ma (2000), 13.</ref> Following the Japanese attack on [[Pearl Harbor]], the strip was dropped; the last strip ran on May 30, 1942.<ref name=Holtz>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |page=100}}</ref> In 2019, [[The Library of American Comics]] reprinted one year of the strip (1938) in their  ''[[List of The Library of American Comics publications#LoAC Essentials|LoAC Essentials]]'' line of books ({{ISBN|978-1-68405-506-7}}).

Over decades, other Charlie Chan [[comic books]] have been published: [[Joe Simon]] and [[Jack Kirby]] created [[Prize Comics]]' ''Charlie Chan'' (1948), which ran for five issues. It was followed by a [[Charlton Comics]] title which continued the numbering (four issues, 1955). [[DC Comics]] published ''The New Adventures of Charlie Chan'',<ref>Anderson and Eury (2005), 1923.</ref> a 1958 tie-in with the TV series; the DC series lasted for six issues. [[Dell Comics]] did the title for two issues in 1965. In the 1970s, [[Gold Key Comics]] published a short-lived series of Chan comics based on the [[Hanna-Barbera Productions|Hanna-Barbera]] animated series. In March through August 1989 [[Eternity Comics|Eternity Comics/Malibu Graphics]] published ''Charlie Chan'' comic books numbers 1 - 6 reprinting daily strips from January 9, 1939 to November 18, 1939.

In addition, a board game, ''The Great Charlie Chan Detective Mystery Game'' (1937),<ref>Rinker (1988), 312.</ref> and a ''Charlie Chan Card Game'' (1939), have been released.