![]() ![]() ![]() Mort and Beetle’s careers are covered in this long Mort Walker interview.Īnd after 70 years Beetle remains in the top ten most distributed strips. The celebration continues into the September 6 Sunday page. Next week’s daily strip about that is also previewed at Hogan’s Alley Facebook. It is set on a fictional United States Army. But ten days later, with some encouragement (read: arm twisting) from his buddies he would be signing the papers.Īlong with the column, Brian has given us a little preview by way of the Hogan’s Alley Facebook page.Īs we all know, and if we forgot Brian reminds us, Mort celebrated his birthday the day before Beetle’s debut. Beetle Bailey is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker, published since September 4, 1950. No not the enlistment strip, just a little foreshadowing. He quickly picked up a hundred papers.Ībove: March 3, 1951. The Korean War was heating up at the time, so Mort decided to have Beetle enlist in the army. King Features considered dropping Beetle Bailey after the first year’s contract was over. After six months it had signed on only twenty-five clients. ![]() Kicking it off a little early is Brian Walker writing a brief column about the early Beetle for the Comics Kingdom blog.īeetle Bailey debuted inauspiciously in twelve newspapers on Sept. The Beetle Bailey comic strip first appeared in newspapers on September 4, 1950.ħ0 years later The Walker Brothers are celebrating the anniversary during the first week of September. ![]()
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