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BetacommandBot 04:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Just scribbling for now. There is one strip where they live in "St. Petersburg", and another that states they do not live in Florida. It could possibly be St. Petersburg, Missouri, a fiction town used in the Tom Sawyer stories. In another strip the mom is reading The Sacramento Bee. — Soap — 16:43, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
I have to admit I doubt that its really Tom Armstrong drawing all these strips. The drawing style seems to change consdiderably from one day to another lately. I'd send an email, also mentioning of course that I've been reading Marvin since I was about 6 years old, but I cant find an easy way to contact the author directly. — Soap — 06:47, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Aaaaand it would appear that as of April 2019, King Features/comicskingdom has turned everything into premium access, so we can no longer access any of the strips that are linked here. — Soap — 18:15, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
I am going to rename this article to Marvin (1982 comic strip) because the article says there was a comic strip named "Marvin" made in 1973. In Correct ( talk) 12:52, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
we cant know, but the bit about the art style changing is cited to a Usenet discussion from 2003, so I suspect it has nothing to do with the more recent changes in art style. I would think its more likely that Armstrong has hired other people to share the work of drawing the strip. Since we cant just assume that, it might even be better to leave that information out of the article altogether. — Soap — 12:03, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
though Ive been a fan of this strip since i was very young, i've actually stopped reading it in the past few years as i find the new GoComics site inconvenient to use. i have a few paperback Marvin books from the 1980s and some saved comics on my hard drive from when the site was hosted at marvincomics.com which i think was more accessible. I've removed some information from the article that was likely correct at the time it was added, but has gone out of date as the strip has changed. e.g. the baby characters can talk now thanks to SORAS or floating timeline or something related. I would add more information about the 1980s strips, which i suppose relatively people have seen in comparison to the recent ones, but honestly the early strips are mostly one-off puns with no continuity, so they are mostly of interest in regards to how the strip has changed over time. — Soap — 10:36, 17 July 2023 (UTC)