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''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' is a franchise which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims. The ''Believe It or Not'' franchise started in 1918 as a newspaper Cartoon panel featuring unusual and startling facts from around the world. Conceived and drawn by Robert Ripley , the panel proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including Radio , Television , a chain of Museum s, a book series and a Pinball game (produced by Stern Pinball, Inc. ). The Ripley collection includes 20,000 photographs, 20,000 artifacts and more than 130,000 cartoon panels. With 50-plus attractions, the Orlando -based Ripley Entertainment, Inc. , a division of the Jim Pattison Group , is a global company with an annual attendance of more than 12 million guests. Ripley Entertainment's publishing and broadcast divisions oversee numerous projects, including the syndicated TV series, the newspaper cartoon panel, books, posters, games and mobile phone content. SYNDICATED FEATURE PANEL "Ripley’s Believe It or Not!" is a registered trademark of Ripley Entertainment, Inc. Originally involving sports feats, Ripley first called his cartoon feature ''Champs and Chumps'', but he changed the title to ''Believe It or Not'', and it premiered on December 19 , 1918 , in the '' New York Globe ''. When the ''Globe'' folded in 1923 , Ripley moved to the ''New York Evening News''. 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. Other writers and researchers included Lester Byck and Don Wimmer. And on the syndicated newspaper panel after Ripley included Joe Campbell (1946–1956), Art Sloggatt (1917-1975), Clem Gretter (1941–1949), Carl Dorese, Bob Clarke (1943–1944), Stan Randall, Paul Frehm (1938–1978) - Frehm became full time artist in 1949) and his brother Walter Frehm (1948–1989) - Walter worked part time with his brother Paul and became full time Ripley artist from 1978–1989). Paul Frehm won the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1976 for his work on the series. 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. At 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. Dozens of paperback editions reprinting the newspaper panels have been published over the decades. Other strips and books borrowed the Ripley design and format, such as ''Strange As It Seems'' by John Hix and ''It Happened in Canada'' by Gordon Johnston. Recent ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' books containing new material have supplemented illustrations with photographs. '' Peanuts '' creator Charles M. Schulz 's first publication of artwork was published by Ripley. It was a cartoon claiming his dog was "a hunting dog who eats pins, tacks and razor blades." Schulz's dog Sparky later became the model for ''Peanut''s' Snoopy . RADIO In April 1930, Ripley brought "Believe It or Not" to '' brought a strong listener reaction, he was given a Monday night NBC series beginning April 14, 1930, followed by a 1931–32 series airing twice a week. After his strange stories were dramatized on NBC's ''Saturday Party'', Ripley was the host of ''The Baker's Broadcast'' from 1935 to 1937. He was scheduled in several different 1937–38 NBC timeslots and then took to the road with popular remote broadcasts. ''See America First with Bob Ripley'' (1939–40) on CBS expanded geographically into ''See All the Americas'', a 1942 program with Latin music. In 1944, he was heard five nights a week on Mutual in shows with an emphasis on WWII. ''Romance, Rhythm and Ripley'' aired on CBS in 1945, followed by ''Pages from Robert L. Ripley's Radio Scrapbook'' (1947–48). Ripley is known for several radio firsts. He was the first to broadcast nationwide on a radio network from mid-ocean, and he also participated in the first broadcast from Buenos Aires to New York. Assisted by a corps of translators, he was the first to broadcast to every nation in the world simultaneously. As the years went on, the show became less about oddities and featured guest-driven entertainment such as comedy routines. Sponsors over the course of the program included Pall Mall Cigarettes and General Foods . The program ended its successful run in 1948 as Ripley prepared to convert the show format to Television Syndication . FILMS, TELEVISION, INTERNET, AND COMPUTER GAME
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