Roper heard about the first race at a three-quarter mile dirt track in Charlotte, NC by reading a note about it in Zack Mosley's The Adventures of Smilin' Jack comic strip in his local newspaper.
Zack Mosley was 87 when he died of a heart attack December 21, 1993 at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Florida.
•
His family then moved to Oklahoma City and he worked for a while as a retail clerk before leaving to attend the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute where he assisted Dick Calkins on Buck Rogers and Skyroads.
•
Zack's younger brother, Robert L. Mosley, flew World War II Air Force combat missions in the Pacific, and after the war, he became Zack's assistant on The Adventures of Smilin' Jack for five years while the two were living in Stuart, Florida.
Oswald Mosley | The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | Max Mosley | Shane Mosley | Zack and Miri Make a Porno | Michael Mosley | Zack Mosley | Nicholas Mosley | Michael Mosley (actor) | Michael J. Mosley | Zack Greinke | The Zack Files | Stephen Mosley | Zack Whedon | Zack Ryder | Zack de la Rocha | Roger E. Mosley | Mosley Mayne | Mosley Baronets | Chuck Mosley | Bob Mosley | Zack Wheat | Zack Werner | Zack Ward | Zack Taylor | Zack Spencer | Zack Sabre, Jr. | Zack Novak | Zack Nipper | Zack Morris |
Hickory was the birthplace and childhood home of Zack Mosley, the creator of the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, an adventurous aviator, inspired by Mosley witnessing an early plane crash in Hickory.
Attending the party were Colin Allen, Frank Beck, Wally Bishop (Muggs and Skeeter), Dick Briefer, Al Fagley, Quin Hall, Bill Holman, Fred Lasswell, Al Posen, Zack Mosley, Leonard Sansone, Chuck Thorndyke, Burt Whitman and Elmer Woggon.