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.