CREATOR

Name: Rudolph Dirks.
Personal dates: Born 1877 in Germany. Died 1968 in New York, USA.
Other creations: The Captain and the Kids*.
Successor: Harold Hering (H.H.) Knerr**.
Comments: * Due to a legal dispute with his publisher, Dirks was forced to change the title. He started working for another publisher with the series under the title The Captain and the Kids and with the same character gallery.
** The panels shown in this page are all by Knerr.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1897. Stopped in 1950.

The strip was inspired by the German author Wilhelm Busch's story Max und Moritz, and it focuses on two young twins, Hans and Fritz, who are unscrupulously mischievous and highly destructive. Their parents (who have no names) are mentioned as Mama and Captain, and a school representative (also nameless) titled Inspector complete the primary character gallery. All the adults are targets for the kids' highly strung mentalities.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

Hans
Fritz
Mama
Captain
Inspector

 

 

GALLERY

 

 

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