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No 3, 9 May 1951. Youth magazine published by the Belgian daily newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, large format. Ab.price 3 Bfrs per magazine. Around 1950 many comics came from America, including Mast and Menie. Mast en Menie is the Dutch title for Pitch and Toss (heads or tails). The cartoonist and creator of this is the Englishman Joe Hardman who gave the comic Pitch and Toss (Our Saucy Shipwrecked Mariners) in 1922 to Don Newhouse who made it famous in England. Newhouse, in turn, 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 strip from Roy Wilson in 1950.
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