The Original Katzenjammer Kids - 19 Newspaper pages & strips - 1917

Extremely rare surviving pages featuring The Original Katzenjammer Kids by Harold Knerr. 19 full pages from 1917. Pages are probably cut...very good condition !

Comics on the back: Happy Hooligan by Opper 6x), Jimmy by Swinnerton

The pages are in fair/good condition, wrinkles, tears, flaking will occur, look at the photos for details. Very delicate pages.

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 and later drawn by Harold Knerr for 35 years (1914 to 1949). It debuted on December 12, 1897, in the American Humorist, the Sunday supplement of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The comic strip was turned into a stage play in 1903. It inspired several animated cartoons and was one of 20 strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of American commemorative postage stamps.

After a series of legal battles between 1912 and 1914, Dirks left the Hearst organization and began a new strip, first titled Hans and Fritz and then The Captain and the Kids. It featured the same characters seen in The Katzenjammer Kids, which was continued by Knerr. The two separate versions of the strip competed with each other until 1979, when The Captain and the Kids ended its six-decade run. The Katzenjammer Kids published its last original strip in 2006, but is still distributed in reprints by King Features Syndicate, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication and the longest-running ever.

The Katzenjammer Kids name changed into The Shenanigan Kids to avoid anti-German sentiment from World War 1

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