Lulu Moppet
Lulu Moppet debuted as a mischievous, pigtailed little girl in Marjorie Henderson Buell's single-panel gag cartoons in The Saturday Evening Post, where her clever antics and irrepressible personality made her a beloved comic-strip icon before she transitioned to comic books.
Few characters can claim a Platinum Age debut and still be turning up in collections three-quarters of a century later, but Lulu Moppet is exactly that kind of enduring figure. Born in the pages of The Saturday Evening Post in 1935 from the imagination of Marge Buell, she emerged at the very dawn of American comics culture and went on to appear across beloved titles like Marge's Little Lulu and Golden Comics Digest, keeping lively company with icons such as Little Lulu, Tubby, and even Woody Woodpecker and Mickey Mouse. With two key-issue appearances flagged by collectors and a publishing span stretching all the way to 2011, she's a testament to the lasting warmth of classic all-ages comics storytelling. If you're building a collection that honors where American comics truly began, Lulu Moppet is a name worth knowing.
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Trivia
- Stanley's run on the Dell comic books — not the strip's original home — is precisely what cemented him as the defining creative force behind Little Lulu, a fact every serious collector keeps in mind when hunting those early issues.en.wikipedia.org
- Lulu's starring role in Kleenex advertising throughout the 1940s and '50s places her in a remarkably short list of comic characters who crossed over into sustained, real-world product spokesmanship.en.wikipedia.org
- When fans launched Friends of Lulu in 1994 as a direct rebuke to sexism in comics, they borrowed the character's name deliberately, proof that Little Lulu had grown into a cultural symbol well beyond the children's entertainment she originally represented.en.wikipedia.org
Top series
Covers through the years — 1947–2006
1947 
1957 ★ 1963 
★ 1968 
2006