 Walter Howey, the editor who assigned Schmidt and Sullivan to create the comic strip, was a personal friend of Hearst, and in "Citizen Kane" Howey's was fictionalized as Jed Leland (Joseph Cotten).As with other strips of the period, "Radio Patrol" was adapted into different media, including a 1930s radio show.The 12-chapter Universal Pictures movie serial, "Radio Patrol" (1937), starring Grant Withers as Pat, was directed by Ford Beebe and Clifford Smith.