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4 unusual facts about Jimmy Hatlo


Jimmy Hatlo

When the United States entered World War I, Hatlo went to Kelly Field, hoping to become an aviator despite his poor eyesight.

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Little Iodine, a spin-off comic strip featuring a mischievous little girl who had become one of Hatlo's stock characters, even got her own series of comic books and a 1946 movie adaptation.

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The two papers later merged as the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, part of William Randolph Hearst's publishing empire.

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Hatlo's other strip, Little Iodine, was adapted into a feature-length movie in 1946.



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