Ripley's 50th Anniversary Believe It or Not (1968).

Ripley's 35th Anniversary Believe It or Not (1954).

Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not (1976).

Ripley's Mammoth Book of Believe It or Not (1953).Ripley's Believe It or Not (1929), reprinted in 2004.Believe It or Not! by Ripley The Big Little Book (1931).Schulz's dog Spike later became the model for Peanuts' Snoopy. It was a cartoon claiming his dog was 'a hunting dog who eats pins, tacks, screws, nails and razor blades'. Schulz's first publication of artwork was published by Ripley. Recent Ripley's Believe It or Not! books containing new material have supplemented illustrations with photographs. Dozens of paperback editions reprinting the newspaper panels have been published over the decades. Īt the peak of its popularity the syndicated feature was read daily by about 80 million readers, and during the first three weeks of May 1932 alone Ripley received over two million pieces of fan mail.

The current artist is Kieran Castaño, who is supported by the Ripley's Research Team. Don Wimmer took up the panel from 1989 to 2004. Other strips and books borrowed the Ripley design and format, such as Ralph Graczak's Our Own Oddities, John Hix's Strange as It Seems, and Gordon Johnston's It Happened in Canada. Clarke later created parodies of Believe It or Not! for Mad, as did Wally Wood and Ernie Kovacs, who also did a recurring satire called 'Strangely Believe It!' on his TV programs. Paul Frehm won the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1976 for his work on the series. Ripley died in 1949 those working on the syndicated newspaper panel after his death included Paul Frehm (1938–1978 he became the full-time artist in 1949), and his brother Walter Frehm (1948–1989) Walter worked part-time with his brother Paul and became a full-time Ripley artist from 1978 to 1989.

In 1930, Ripley moved to the New York American and was picked up by the King Features Syndicate, being quickly syndicated on an international basis. Other writers and researchers included Lester Byck. That same year, Ripley hired Norbert Pearlroth as his researcher, and Pearlroth spent the next 52 years of his life in the New York Public Library, working ten hours a day and six days a week in order to find unusual facts for Ripley. In 1924, the panel began being syndicated by Associated Newspapers, (formed as part of a cooperative that had included the Globe). When the Globe folded in 1923, he moved to the New York Evening Post. He began adding items unrelated to sports, and in October 1919 changed the title to Believe It or Not. Ripley called his cartoon feature, originally involving sports feats, Champs and Chumps, when it premiered on December 19, 1918, in The New York Globe.

United Feature Syndicate (1989–present).

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