 In 1952, McBride's widow Margot Fischer McBride and new artist Roger Armstrong took "Napoleon and Uncle Elby" to the Mirror Enterprises Syndicate.Lafave reacted by signing a flurry of new strips, including Dick Huemer and Paul Murry's "Buck O' Rue" (1951–c.1953), and John Duncan's "Jungo" (1954), neither of which proved popular.