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Reg'lar Fellers

Reg'lar Fellers
Author(s)Gene Byrnes
Current status/scheduleConcluded daily & Sunday strip
Launch date1917
End dateJanuary 18, 1949
Alternate name(s)
  • (daily) It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken (1917–1920)
  • (Sunday) Wide Awake Willie (1919–1920)
Syndicate(s)Bell Syndicate (1917–1924)
George Matthew Adams Service (1924–1929)[1]
King Features (1929–1942)
Associated Newspapers (1942–1949)[2]
Publisher(s)Cupples & Leon, Big Little Books, Whitman Publishing, Eastern Color Printing, Dell Comics, DC Comics, Standard Comics
Genre(s)Humor, Children
Gene Byrnes' page with Reg'lar Fellers and Daisybelle (December 11. 1938)

Reg'lar Fellers is a long-running newspaper comic strip adapted into a feature film, a radio series on the NBC Red Network, and two animated cartoons. Created by Gene Byrnes (1889–1974), the comic strip offered a humorous look at a gang of suburban children (who nevertheless spoke like New York street kids). Syndicated from 1917 to January 18, 1949,[3] Byrnes' strip was collected into several books. Branding also extended to such items as baseball bats and breakfast cereal.

  1. ^ Tack Knight entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Accessed Nov. 1, 2018.
  2. ^ George Carlson entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Accessed Nov. 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 329. ISBN 9780472117567.

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