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Pum Pum No. 9, 20 June 1951. Weekly supplement to the Flemish daily newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. Subscription price 3.5 Bfr. per number. Initially the magazine appeared from April 25, 1951 to February 25, 1953 as an independent magazine Het Laatste Nieuws, but after that it became a free supplement to the newspaper. The title of the magazine Pum Pum was named after the character "Pum-Pum" from Hans Kresse's comic series Eric de Noorman, a comic book series that was also published in the magazine. Other Dutch draftsmen, such as Marten Toonder, Piet Wijn, Henk Sprenger, Gerrit Stapel, J.H. Koelewijn and Wim Lensen were discussed, as well as work by American and British draftsmen. Belgian contributions were made by Edgar P. Jacobs, Bob De Moor and André Franquin. 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. "The Captain and the Scamps" deals with the adventures of a captain with his family and an old professor who lives on a tropical island. Life is not easy for the sailor. In the first place, he has trouble with the language, in the second place, he has a difficult wife and in the third place, his sons, Hans and Frits, are the naughtiest boys who have ever walked around in a comic. "The Captain and the Scamps" is the oldest newspaper cartoon. It was commissioned in 1897 by the American magazine king Hearst, by the draftsmen Knerr and Dirks (who themselves were emigrants like the captain).
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