Mama Katzenjammer

Few characters can claim roots stretching back to the Platinum Age, but Mama Katzenjammer made her comics debut in 1938's Tip Top Comics #11, brought to life by Bernard Dibble for United Feature Syndicate. She's the matriarch at the heart of the beloved Katzenjammer household, sharing her pages with the likes of Fritz, Hans, and Der Captain across a remarkable publishing span that stretched all the way to 1991 — over five decades of family chaos. Her long run in Tip Top Comics and United Feature Comics places her in genuinely historic company alongside perennial favorites like Nancy and Sluggo, making her a warm and wonderfully nostalgic corner of American comics history worth any collector's attention.