{"id":474,"date":"2026-10-01T14:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/misteroswald.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:12:58","slug":"mister-oswald-turns-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misteroswald.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Mister Oswald Turns 99!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huzzah!  Mister Oswald is 99 years old!  Our intrepid hero first appeared in the pages of <strong><em>Hardware Retailer<\/em><\/strong> magazine in the October 1927 issue.  Longtime fans of Russ Johnson&#8217;s work will be familiar with this page, but for those of your new to the character, here is Mister Oswald&#8217;s introduction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misteroswald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mister-Oswald-First-Appearance-Oct-1927-BW.webp?resize=742%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-475\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misteroswald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mister-Oswald-First-Appearance-Oct-1927-BW.webp?resize=742%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 742w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misteroswald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mister-Oswald-First-Appearance-Oct-1927-BW.webp?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misteroswald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mister-Oswald-First-Appearance-Oct-1927-BW.webp?resize=768%2C1059&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/misteroswald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mister-Oswald-First-Appearance-Oct-1927-BW.webp?w=1015&amp;ssl=1 1015w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long live Russ Johnson&#8217;s wonderful creation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mister Oswald is 99 Years Old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[10,17,15,12,8,7,11,6,5,13],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-40-years-with-mister-oswald","tag-cartoonist","tag-comic-strip","tag-hardware-cartoons","tag-hardware-retailing","tag-mister-oswald","tag-mr-oswald","tag-russ-johnson","tag-russell-johnson","tag-vintatage-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mister Oswald Turns 99! 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