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- ↑ Inkpot Award
- ↑ Gill Fox at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
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- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide #1636 (December 2007), p. 135. The New York Times (below) also gives 1915, although the Lambiek Comiclopedia (above) lists 1919.
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