The first comic strip to use multiple sequential panels in a single feature format six days a week
was the short-lived A PIKER CLERK by Clare Briggs. The second was the wildly popular MUTT &
JEFF. MUTT & JEFF first saw print in the San Francisco Chronicle on November 15, 1907 and
continued until June 26, 1983. During that time the strip was published by various newspaper
syndicates starting with King Features and ending with the Field Newspaper Syndicate.
MUTT & JEFF has been published by various comic book companies including Dell and Harvey,
but most famously by ALL-AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS, now known as D.C. Comics. MUTT &
JEFFÕs historical pedigree includes the strip being part of what is considered by most comic
historians as the first modern comic book, FAMOUS FUNNIES #1. In 1939 D.C. Comics published
MUTT & JEFF #1. The series had one hundred and three issues and lasted just shy of twenty
years. For reasons known only to the clerical gods, the D.C. MUTT & JEFF comics slipped quietly
into the public domain.