On the same date – December 5, in 1664, 1785, and 1860 – a ship sank in the Menai Strait near North Wales. In every one of these instances, there was only one survivor.
ODDLY ENOUGH … In each case, the single survivor was named Hugh Williams!
Credits:
Russ Miller has been a cartoonist, book illustrator, comic book writer and artist for over 40 years -- working for Marvel, Disney, Another Rainbow, Gibbs Smith publishing and a host of other newspapers and magazines. He has a single-panel feature - Russ Miller's Oddly Enough (one is excerpted above)- which has been published for 30 years in various periodicals and was syndicated for 20. He has been a college professor and written a weekly, illustrated newspaper column for 17 years.
