Ripley's Believe It or Not!

In the early 1940s, Pocket Books launched Ripley's Believe It or Not!, a long-running comic series that adapted Robert Ripley's famous newspaper panel of oddities and wonders into a monthly comic book format. Running for 30 issues through 1982, the series was most frequently written by Norbert Pearlroth, the longtime researcher for the original feature, and relied on photographs rather than traditional comic art to illustrate its bizarre true stories. It stands as a unique artifact of mid-century popular culture, bringing the public's fascination with the strange and unexplained directly into the comic book medium.