Joan Crosby Tibbetts has been waging a campaign for years now to defend rights to her dad's "Skippy" character. Percy Crosby (1891-1964) created an incredibly popular feature starring a little boy playing with his buddies and making observations about life -- at first in the pages of the 1923 pre-photo-magazine version of Life and then (1925-1945) via a syndicated newspaper feature. There were books, toys, and a movie that starred Jackie Cooper and brought Norman Taurog the Best Director Oscar, and the strip can't be properly conveyed with only a few samples. Nonetheless, here are three from 1939. (Owing to the size of the printed strips, I can't get more than three at a time on the scanner.) The top two of these feature the fence that lingered on jars of Skippy peanut butter long after the connection to the strip's character had been forgotten by most.