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December 24: first daily strip of the King Features series The Five-Fifteen (later, Sappo the commuter) by Elzie Crisler Segar.

Her husband Herbert Tourtel writes the texts, while she illustrates.

November 8: Mary Tourtel's Rupert Bear makes its debut.

October 17: Oscar Jacobsson's Adamson (known in English as Silent Sam) makes its debut.

September 20: Martin Branner's Winnie Winkle makes its debut.

He will continue the series until 1948, after which Vincent Fago takes it over.

August 15: Harrison Cady's Peter Rabbit makes its debut.

He will draw it personally until 1939, after which Jim Russell will take it over until his death in 2001, which also means the comic strip's conclusion.

Stan Cross' The Potts makes its debut, but as You & Me (it receives it's more familiar title, The Potts only in 1951).

In Portugal Rocha Vieira creates Fitas de Juca e Zeca.

January 17: The first issue of the British comics magazine Film Fun is published.

Segar's Thimble Theatre Castor Oyl makes his debut. Petits Belges changes its name into Bonjour in 1957 and Tremplin in 1960. Both will feature a lot of children's comics.

January 4: The first issue of the Flemish Catholic children's magazine Zonneland and its Walloon sister publication Petits Belges are published.

(15701).This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1920s. Uncommon in superior condition, especially in the jacket. A fine copy in the rarely seen pictorial dust jacket, with short tears and creasing along the bottom edge, but intact with some loss, but only to spine ends.

Though the book itself is not rare, the wraparound dustwrapper containing all the Hearts/King Features characters is scarce. This duo created what was in essence a marketing book about the stable of comic characters at King Features. To write the book, King Features brought in erstwhile Hollywood scriptwriter, playwright and newspaper columnist Jack Lait, who would later co-author "New York Confidential", "Chicago Confidential" and "Washington Confidential".

This allowed Biederman to develop the skill of being able to copy any of the cartoonists at King features and it was he who was assigned the artwork in this book. Louis Biederman worked as a staff assistant at King Features at this time, filling in when cartoonists went on vacation, inking different cartoonists work and pitching in on the lettering. Segar, Chester Gould, all shown interacting - at a banquet, the races (a match between Spark Plug and Maud), and at a wedding - in color drawings (some double page) by Louis Biedermann. A story by Jack Lait featuring 1920's comic characters created by George McManus, George Herriman, Frederick Burr Opper, Reuben L. 10-112, color illustrations by Louis Biedermann, original green cloth, spine panel lettered in gold, color pictorial onlay affixed to front panel, pictorial endpapers.