Silent Sam

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Silent Sam (sometimes Adamson's Adventures) is the American name for the Swedish comic strip Adamson, created by Oscar Jacobsson in 1920.

Adamson himself was a silent little cigar-smoking man with a big hat and frequent misadventures. The strip originally appeared in the Swedish humor publication Söndags-Nisse, where it debuted on October 17 1920.

Adamson soon became very popular and was published in hundreds of newspapers all over the world. In the United States, it became known as "Silent Sam".

In 1965, the Swedish Comic Academy founded "The Adamson Award" in Jacobsson's honor. This "Nobel Prize of comics" is awarded to one Swedish and one international comic creator every year.

Silent Sam is also the name for a statue of a Confederate soldier on the campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. It is legended that if a virgin walks past Silent Sam, his rifle would fire. No shots have been fired as of yet.