Chronological History of American Comics
part two 1914-1933
1914
Dirk's Hans and Fritz makes first appearance. Later renamed the
Captain and the Kids after America enters World War I.
Harold H.Knerr's first Katzenjammer Kids appears.
Harry Hershfield's Abie the Agent makes first appearance.
1915
Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Folks makes first appearance as a
regular feature.
Merrill Blosser's Freckles and His Friends makes first appearance.
Moses Koenigsberg consolidates all of Hearst's syndication
companies under one banner and calls it King Features Syndicate.
Rube Goldgerg's Boob McNutt makes first appearance.
1917
Felix the Cat appears in animated cartoons.
Sidney Smith's the Gumps makes first appearance in the Chicago
Tribune.
1918
Frank King's Gasoline Alley makes first appearance in the Chicago
Tribune
1919
Billy DeBeck's Barney Google makes first appearance in the Journal
American.
Carl Ed's Harold Teen makes first appearance in the Chicago
Tribune.
Elzie Crisler Segar creates Thimble Theater in the Journal
American.
1920
Martin Branners Winnie Winkle makes first appearance.
1921
Ed Wheelan's. Minute Movies first appearance.
J.R.Williams' Out Our Way first appearance.
Russ Westover's Tillie the Toiler first appearance.
1922
Walter Berndt's Smitty makes first appearance.
1923
Ad Carter's Just Kids makes first appearance.
Frank Willard's Moon Mullins makes first appearance in the Chicago
Tribune
Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat first appearance as a newspaper strip
in the Journal American.
Sol Hess' The Nebbs makes first appearance
1924
Edgar Martin's Boots and Her Buddies makes first appearance.
Harold Grays Little Orphan Annie makes first appearance in the New
York News.
Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs first appearance in the Chicago Tribune.
1925
Charles Plumb and Bill Conselman's Ella Cinders first appearance.
Ella Cinders started by Charles Plumb and Bill Conselman. Alain
Saint-
1926
Amazing Stories begins publication.
1927
Frank Godwin's marvelous adventure (later sci-fi) comic strip
Connie makes first appearance.
1928
Buck Rogers Makes first appearance in Amazing Stories August
issue.
Hal Forrest creates Tailspin Tommy with Glenn Chaffin.
Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka makes first appearance.
Lyman Young's Tim Tyler's Luck first appearance.
Percy Crosby's Skippy makes first appearance in the Journal
American.
1929
Clifford McBride's Napoleon first appearance.
Dick Calkin's Buck Rogers first appearance.
Internationaly famous strip Tintin appears in Belgium created by
Herge(Georges Remi).
Popeye makes his first appearance in Segar's Thimble Theatre.
Tarzan introduced as a comic strip illustrated by Harold R. Foster
1930
Chic Young's Blondie makes her first appearance. Becomes the
quintessential family strip a la All in the Family.
John Terry's Scorchy Smith makes first appearance.
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse introduced as a comic strip drawn by
animator Ub Iwerks.
1931
Chester Gould's immortal Dick Tracy makes his first appearance in
the Detroit Free Press on October 4.
1932
C.D. Russell's Pete the Tramp first appearance natioanlly.
Martha Orr's Apple Mary makes first appearance becomes Mary Worth
in 1940 by Dale Allen (Allen Saunders & Dale Conners).
1933
Brick Bradford by William Ritt & Clarence Gray makes first
appearance.
Eastern Publishing prints Funnies on Parade the first comic book
for Procter & Gamble as a promotional item. The contents of the book were
entirely comicstrip reprints.
Milton Caniff's Dickie Dare makes first appearance.
Vincent T. Hamlin's Alley Oop makes first appearance.
Zack Mosley's On the Wing makes first appearance on October 1,
becomes Smilin' Jack in December.