Walt Wallet

Walt Wallet is the warmhearted bachelor from Frank King's long-running comic strip Gasoline Alley who discovered an abandoned baby, Skeezix, on his doorstep on New Year's Day 1921 — a foundational moment that transformed him into an adoptive father and anchor of the strip's domestic storytelling.

Walt Wallet has a modest but meaningful footprint in the catalog — just five appearances, yet they span from a 1971 Bronze Age debut all the way to 2003, suggesting a character with quiet staying power. Most often found in the pages of Drawn and Quarterly Sampler Autumn 2003 and the archival Nemo: The Classic Comics Library, Walt keeps company with Skeezix and exists in that thoughtful space where comics history and preservation meet. Created by Percy Crosby, Walt is the kind of figure who rewards the curious collector willing to dig into the deeper stacks.