Betty Boop

Few characters carry the kind of cross-generational sparkle that Betty Boop brings to the comics page — a figure so iconic she leaped from animation history into Bronze Age print with her 1975 debut in Apple Pie #1, courtesy of creators Mike Sullivan and Nano Riley. Over nearly five decades (1975–2023), she's proven herself a remarkably durable presence in the comics medium, anchoring dedicated series like Betty Boop and Betty Boop's Sunday Best under Dynamite Entertainment while also gracing the pages of Cracked and archival collections celebrating her earliest 1930s newspaper comic strip work. Her catalog company is genuinely rarefied — sharing pages with the likes of Popeye, Dick Tracy, Mickey Mouse, and The Phantom — and with a key collector's issue among her appearances, she's as worthy of a dedicated longbox slot as she is of a place of honor on any pop-culture shelf.