Apartment 3-G

Apartment 3-G was an American newspaper soap opera comic strip about a trio of career women who share the eponymous Apartment 3-G in Manhattan. Created by Nicholas P. Dallis with art by Alex Kotzky, the strip began May 8, 1961, initially distributed by the Publishers Syndicate, which later merged with King Features Syndicate in 1988.

The strip went through several changes of writers and artists over its 54-year run, finally ending on November 22, 2015.

The strip's situations and characters were influenced by the pioneering soap opera strip Mary Worth as well as Rona Jaffe's bestselling 1958 novel The Best of Everything.

The three main characters are Margo Magee, a brunette who has variously held positions as a secretary, actors' agent, publicist and event planner; Abigail "Tommie" Thompson, a redheaded nurse; and Lu Ann Powers née Wright, a blonde art teacher and widow of a U.S. Air Force pilot named Maxwell Powers (renamed Gary in a 2011 story arc) who has only been shown briefly on the strip previous to dying on the Vietnam War. Kindly neighbor Professor Aristotle Papagoras (named for an admired Greek philosopher Aristotle) serves as a father figure. Lu Ann, originally single, met her husband and married in the 1960s, after which she moved out of the apartment to be replaced by another blonde, Beth. Lu Ann's husband was later killed in Vietnam, and she eventually moved back into the apartment, while Beth was written out.

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