Esquire is a men’s magazine , founded and edited by David A. Smart. It was
published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. The first issue (above)
appeared on October 4, 1933.

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring police detective Dick Tracy.The strip was created
by cartoonist Chester Gould (shown below) and made its debut on Sunday October 4, 1931 in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York
Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977.

Chester Gould in 1932

Toy Dick Tracy squad car

Walt Disney (center) with the Mouseketeers

The Mickey Mouse Club is an variety television show created for children by Walt
Disney Productions that aired on  ABC –TV from Monday October 3, 1955 to 1959. It featured a regular but ever changing cast of young performers. The show was hosted
by songwriter Jimmie Dodd (below). The main cast members were called Mouseketeers who performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers.

Jimmie Dodd

 

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated
by Charles M. Schulz (above), which ran from Sunday October 2, 1950, to
February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered
to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium,
with 17,897 strips published in all. Schulz died February 12, 2000.

Hazel is a Screen Gems television sitcom series the follows the life a fictional live-
in maid named Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The
five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from Thursday September 28,
1961 until September 5, 1966. The first four seasons aired on NBC-TV and were sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. The show was based on a popular single
panel comic strip (below) by cartoonist Ted Key that appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post.