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Feb. 14, 1941: “Gasoline Alley” celebrates the 20th anniversary of the arrival of Skeezix Wallet. And here’s a mystery for cartoon historians: Although the anniversary is usually listed as Feb. 14, 1921, the actual publication date in The Times was Feb. 11, 1921. Walt Wallet was, of course, a bachelor so how else to introduce a child into the storyline? Tom Treanor says of the wealthy refugees he met in Lisbon, Portugal: It's strange how intelligent, educated people who have been brought up to have perspective can have so missed the whole immensity of the war. As a group, they have missed completely the fact that their idly aristocratic way of life is gone. They don't realize at all how unfit their past has made them for the future. |
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My theory: Feb 11, 1921 was a Friday, and they wanted to have a cliffhanger. If there were Saturday strips in 1921, that would kind of kill my theory.
My dad was born in 1927 and had a game as a kid called “Skeezix Visits Nina.” I played with it myself when I was a kid in the 1970s, and I remember clearly that the game had almost no identifying markings on it to indicate the year it was made. Skeezix was a teen driver in the game, so if he was born in 1921, that would place the game around 1937. Now I know!
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Walt Wallet eventually married, i think. I remember a woman Walt lived with later on who looked like him. Similars attract.
And didn’t Skeezix have exactly the same hair Walt did? Seems to me Walt may have enjoyed a little fling with Skeezix’ mom who for propriety’s sake never made an appearance.
One of the things i liked about this strip was each character visibly aged by the year. I think by the time Walt passed on he was 117.
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