following the end of "dan dunn", marsh created another hardboiled-detective strip, "hunter keene", for king features syndicate, which ran daily and not sunday from april 15, 1946, to april 12, 1947. following this was "danny hale", about "a kid frontiersman who found himself tagging along with revolutionary war heroes, accompanying the lewis and clark expedition, and generally being in the right place at the right time (even if those times were widely separated)", according to comics historian allan holtz. king features syndicated it beginning october 27, 1947, and after three years, with the syndicate prepared to end it, marsh began self-syndicating the strip starting january 15, 1951 episode. a year later, he changed the title to "dan'l hale" and aged the character to a young man. the strip ended on october 13, 1962.