Today’s Zippy: (#1) Fleer’s product was pink (hence the strip’s title, “In the pink”), apparently because that was the only coloring the inventor had on hand. From Wikipedia: Dubble Bubble is a [rhyming] brand of pink-colored bubblegum invented by Walter Diemer, an accountant at Philadelphia based Fleer Chewing Gum Company, in 1928. One of Diemer’s … Continue reading Dingburg bubbles