Catalogue information
No. 1, April 25, 1951. Youth supplement of Belgian weekly newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, large format. Ab price 3,5 Bfrs. Around 1950 many comics came from America, including Mast and Menie. Mast en Menie is the Dutch title for Pitch and Toss (head or tail). The draftsman and creator of this is the Englishman Joe Hardman who turned the comic Pitch and Toss (Our Saucy Shipwrecked Mariners) in 1922 to Don Newhouse who made him famous in England. In turn, Newhouse handed over the strip in 1932 to his assistant Roy Wilson (1900-1965), originally a furniture designer by trade. From 1920 he started drawing comic strips as an assistant to Don Newhouse. Marten Toonder took over and translated the comic strip from Roy Wilson in 1950.
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