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Virtually all of [X:s] inimitable cast of characters /.../ were individually followed in the daily panel and Sunday page by the strip's millions of readers as if they were actual people. They were so recognizable that [X] could drop them in and out of the strip for weeks or months without using their names, with the full assurance that the readers would know who they were when they reappeared.

Most famed and admired of all [X:s] inventions, however, was a trolley car and its living adjunct, the trolley skipper (never given a further name). This tall, angular, four-wheeled trolley with its interior stove and smokestack and its twisting miles of rural track was the delight of newspaper readers throughout the 1920's and 1930's: toys in its image were sold everywhere; and Educational Pictures' live action ["Z by X"] of the early 1920's featured a replica of the trolley and its capped, be-spectacled and bearded skipper in every film. Various localities vied to lay claim to the "original" [Z] trolley, and for decades every trolley line laid to rest across the country was called a [Z] by local news writers.

/.../ Later in the 1920's, another [X] character /.../ was featured in a series of short-lived live-action comedies starring Mickey Rooney (who took his first name from the strip character). Several [Y] strip collections by [X] were published in the late 1910's and early 1920's. /.../ [X] himself folded the daily and Sunday strip in 1955 and retired to Greenwich, Connecticut where he died in 1964.