History ComicStrip / GasolineAlley

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: An October-November 2015 storyline %%currently running%% has Walt visiting an "old comics' home" to attend [[ComicStrip/MuttAndJeff Jeff's funeral]], only to find out that Jeff is actually alive and well (much to the surprise of everyone else). Apart from Mutt and Jeff themselves, many other comics characters have appeared in this arc, including "Smokey Stover" an even the "Yellow Kid".

* MethuselahSyndrome: [[PlotArmor By virtue of being the main character]], Walt would be the third-oldest living person in the world if he were actually alive, and he's likely not going away anytime soon. The current writer writer of the strip has stated that he does have plans for this issue; ''what'' plans, however, he isn't saying.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Averted. Walt is over 110 years old (Phyllis was 105 when she passed away in 2004) and Skeezix is now more than 90. While some characters have, the most popular and important characters will probably never get around to actually dying, but characters who were young in the RoaringTwenties are ancient now and characters who were introduced as children have families of their own.

* DiscoDan: Avery, Walt's original neighbor, was this half a decade before disco even took off; his defining trait was that he still used a crank car after everyone else had moved on to cars with starters.

* MethuselahSyndrome: [[PlotArmor By virtue of being the main character]], Walt would be the third-oldest living person in the world if he were actually alive, and he's likely not going away anytime soon.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Averted. Walt is over 110 years old (Phyllis was 105 when she passed away in 2004) and Skeezix has now more than 90. While some characters have, the most popular and important characters will probably never get around to actually dying, but characters who were young in the RoaringTwenties are ancient now and characters who were introduced as children have families of their own.

* ArtifactTitle: The strip began as a part of "The Rectangle", where each of the ''Chicago Tribune'''s four staff artists drew a panel. In Frank King's panel, four characters named Walt, Doc, Avery and Bill (the last three being long dead by now) talked about cars, hence the name. It became popular enough to be spun off as a strip in 1918, with more characters who talk about a lot of other things besides cars. Even by the 1950s, ''Mad'' was doing parodies noting that the strip seemed to have nothing to do with gasoline.

Frank King was the original artist, being replaced by Bill Perry in 1951 (Sundays) and Dick Moores in 1959 (dailies), with both assisting King for years. In 1975 Moores became the sole artist. Jim Scancarelli took over in 1986 after Moores' death and has drawn the strip ever since.

''Gasoline Alley'' is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second-longest-running comic strip in the US and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations. In addition to inventive color and page design concepts, King introduced real-time continuity to comic strips by showing his characters as they grew to maturity and aged over generations.

* BusCrash: Walt's friends Avery, Doc and Bill were phased out as the strip began to focus on Skeezix's family. They were mentioned years later, all having died "off-stage".

** In 2012, recurring "ne'er-do-well" characters Joel and Rufus were giving away kittens, one of them it was given to Walt, who had a deja vu before reminiscing about the time in 1921 when he found Skeezix.

* OutlivedItsCreator

* ArtifactTitle: The strip began as a panel of "The Rectangle", where each of the ''Chicago Tribune'''s four staff artists drew one. In Frank King's, Walt, Doc, Avery and Bill, the last three long dead by now, talked about cars, hence the name. It became popular enough to be spun off as a strip in 1918, with more characters who talk about a lot of other things besides cars. Even by the 1950s, ''Mad'' was doing parodies noting that the strip seemed to have nothing to do with gasoline.

* PrintLongRunner: It has run every day since 1920, and it was printed weekly in the two years beforehand.

* LongRunner: It has run every day since 1920, and it was printed weekly in the two years beforehand.

** Also played straight in general when Dick Moores' helmed the strip in the 1970s and '80s.

''Gasoline Alley'' is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second longest running comic strip in the US and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations. In addition to inventive color and page design concepts, King introduced real-time continuity to comic strips by showing his characters as they grew to maturity and aged over generations.

** Also played straight in the 1970's and 1980's.

* DoorstepBaby: That's how Walt found Skeezix in 1921, and Judy in 1935.

** Also played straight in the 1970's and 1980's.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Averted. Walt is over 110 years old (Phyllis was 105 when she passed away in 2004) and Skeezix has now more than 90.

* CrazyCatLady: Joel borders on being a male version.

* CrossOver: A few ones with ''DickTracy''.

** Also played straight in the 1970's and 1980's.

* NotAllowedToGrow: Averted. Walt is over 110 years old (Phyllis was 105 when she passed away in 2004) and Skeezix has now more than 90.

** Also played straight when the strip was drawn by Dick Moores in the 1970's and 1980's.