Title
The Yellow Kid
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Howard Ainslee & Co.
Date
March 1897
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
The Yellow Kid, created by Richard F. Outcault, is widely considered to be the first great comic strip character. The Kid was used by both Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst in their New York newspapers as they waged a war for dominance, incidentally coining the phrase “yellow journalism.” Except for the title and cover illustration, this magazine of short stories makes no other reference to the title character.