
Robert L. Ripley shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier.

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If you have about ten minutes and want to see what passed for 'viral content' in 1930, you should definitely give this a look. It is basically the ancestor of a YouTube shorts feed or a TikTok scroll. History nerds and people who like random trivia will probably get a kick out of it. If you need a plot or characters y...
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"If you have about ten minutes and want to see what passed for 'viral content' in 1930, you should definitely give this a look. It is basically the ancestor of a YouTube shorts feed or a TikTok scroll. History nerds and people who like random trivia will probably get a kick out of it. If you need a plot or characters you can actually care about, you will probably hate this. Robert Ripley starts the whole thing off by showing his first-ever cartoon. He looks a little stiff on camera, like he’s n..."

