Can Be Attributed To A 100-Year-Old Cartoon - Believe It or Not! turns 100!
Champs and Chumps
On December 19, 1918 - ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY - the first “Believe It or Not!” cartoon was published.
On a slow news day, Robert Ripley pondered how to fill the space assigned to him as an illustrator for the New York Globe. He decided to return to an old concept that he’d experimented with back in the winter of 1916. Little did he know, the choice he was about to make would be the start of an amazing adventure that lives on today.
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