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A news item involving Mort Walker was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 28 January 2017.

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Unsourced report of his death, 27 Jan 2018: https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/01/27/mort-walker-r-i-p/

Here is a sourced report of his death - https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Beetle-Bailey-cartoonist-Mort-Walker-dies-12530668.php Radiohist (talk) 20:51, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]