# Red Baron comic strip -- am I nuts??

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**Created:** [November 25, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-baron-comic-strip-am-i-nuts/642046 "2012-11-25T06:33:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-baron-comic-strip-am-i-nuts/642046/1 "2012-11-25T06:33:54Z")

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Okay, don’t answer the second part; I know I’m crazy. 🙂

Anyway, I seem to remember from my childhood in the seventies a b&w comic strip featuring the Red Baron – the same Baron who was Snoopy’s “World War I pilot” persona’s unseen nemesis. This strip is told from the Baron’s point of view.

I doubt very much this was anything Charles Schulz did. it seems, from my fragmented memories, this was a featurette in one of the humor magazines of the era, e.g. MAD or National Lampoon.

Is this ringing a bell with anybody over fifty?

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**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-baron-comic-strip-am-i-nuts/642046/2 "2012-11-25T07:14:49Z")

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According to the Mad Cover site, you are looking for Mad Magazine #123 December 68 issue and #127 June 1969. Happiness is eine kaput beagle.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-baron-comic-strip-am-i-nuts/642046/3 "2012-11-25T12:37:55Z")

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No, no, **audit1** , I seem to recall a newspaper strip existing. Very short run.  
I don’t remember more than that.

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**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-baron-comic-strip-am-i-nuts/642046/4 "2012-11-25T13:25:19Z")

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It was a comic book rather than a newspaper strip, but the first thing I thought of when I read your post was DC’s Enemy Ace: [Enemy Ace - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Ace).

Probably not what you had in mind. Was it a humour strip or an adventure strip you’re thinking of?

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**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-baron-comic-strip-am-i-nuts/642046/5 "2012-11-25T18:12:42Z")

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> [@audit1](#):
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> According to the Mad Cover site, you are looking for Mad Magazine #123 December 68 issue and #127 June 1969. Happiness is eine kaput beagle.

That sounds familiar!!

ETA: YES!! That “American Beagle???” panel is just what I remember! Thanks!

> [@Slade](#):
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> It was a comic book rather than a newspaper strip, but the first thing I thought of when I read your post was DC’s Enemy Ace: [Enemy Ace - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Ace).
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> Probably not what you had in mind. Was it a humour strip or an adventure strip you’re thinking of?

Humor strip. But thanks, that looks like an interesting comic.