Beetle Bailey Autographs
Beetle Bailey is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker, published since September 4, 1950. It is set on a fictional United States Army post. In the years just before Walker's death in 2018 (at age 94), it was among the oldest comic strips still being produced by its original creator. Over the years, Mort Walker had been assisted by (among others) Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker's sons, Neal, Brian and Greg Walker, who are continuing the strip after his death.
Beetle was originally a college student at Rockview University, as of September 4, 1950. Although he was as lazy in college as he would be in the service, he did have a broken down jalopy and was the star of the track team (apparently on a scholarship). He had four friends: Bitter Bill; Diamond Jim; Freshman and Sweatsock. He also smoked a pipe. The characters in that early strip were modeled after Walker's Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri. On March 13, 1951, during the strip's first year, Beetle quit school and enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he has remained ever since. His reason for enlisting was because he was running away after being nearly trapped by both his angry jealous first girlfriend "Buzz" and a second girl who was chasing him.
Most of the humor in Beetle Bailey revolves around the inept characters stationed at Camp Swampy (inspired by Camp Crowder, where Walker had once been stationed while in the Army), which is located near the town of Hurleyburg at "Parris Island, S.C." (a real-life Marine Corps base). Private Bailey is a lazy sort who usually naps and avoids work, and thus is often the subject of verbal and physical chastising from his senior NCO, Sergeant Snorkel. The characters never seem to see combat themselves, with the exception of mock battles and combat drills.
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Current items with a signature of Beetle Bailey
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Traded items with a signature of Beetle Bailey
The most expensive item with a signature of Beetle Bailey (Mort Walker Signed Original Hand Drawn Beetle Bailey Comic Strip – JSA COA) was sold in September 2025 for $1,549.00 while the cheapest item (MORT WALKER SIGNED QUESTIONNAIRE CREATOR OF BEETLE BAILEY COMIC STRIP NEWSPAPER) found a new owner for $0.59 in May 2016. The month with the most items sold (12) was July 2017 with an average selling price of $7.34 for an autographed item of Beetle Bailey. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $974.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $2.25 was April 2017. In average, an autographed item from Beetle Bailey is worth $19.24.
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