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Unbeknownst to most, Barbie actually started out life in the late 1940s as a German cartoon character created by artist Reinhard Beuthien for the Hamburg-based tabloid, Bild-Zeitung.
I just pulled the date from this description under one of the images on imgur, if it’s inaccurate that’s why.
Wikipedia says 1952 to 1961, not 1940s. Pretty important difference lol
Links for the lazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilli_(comic_strip) 1952-1961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll 1955-1964
I just pulled the date from this description under one of the images on imgur, if it’s inaccurate that’s why.
You might get a kick out of Netflix’s “The Toys That Made Us”. It has a Barbie episode, and they do talk about Bild Lili a bit at the beginning.
And CF the British comic strip “Jane” - which ran from the 1930s through to the end of the '50s.