[2] Comics historian Don Markstein traced the history of the strip: Goldberg launched Boob McNutt in 1915, but it wasn't immediately picked up for syndication.

On June 9, 1918, the Star Company (a Hearst subsidiary and therefore a corporate sibling to the nascent King Features Syndicate) began distributing it nationwide.

In the late 1920s and early '30s, the topper's star was a likeable but shiftless young man named Bill, while in the main part of the page, Boob and Pearl carried on a zany, over-the-top soap opera—but the feature seemed to be running out of steam.

[4] In his seminal 1923 essay, "The Seven Lively Arts", Gilbert Seldes called Boob McNutt "the least worthy of Rube Goldberg's astonishing creations".

In the Season 19 episode of American Dad!, ""The Girl Who Cried Space Jam," Hailey Smith's public domain cartoon character team includes her husband Jeff dressed in a Boob McNutt costume.