Among its famous readers were Erico Verissimo, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Ruy Barbosa and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

[1] O Tico Tico was founded by journalist Luis Bartolomeu de Souza e Silva, inspired by foreign magazines such as the French La Semaine de Suzette.

[2] Luis Bartolomeu de Souza e Silva also launched a satirical magazine, O Malho.

[4] The magazine published comics by Brazilian artists such as Reco-Reco, Bolão e Azeitona, by Luis Sá and Lamparina, by J. Carlos and foreign comics, such as Richard Outcault's Buster Brown,[2] (known as Chiquinho in Brazil; its stories were loosely adapted by Brazilian writers), Popeye, Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse (then known as Ratinho Curioso — "Curious Mouse").

It stopped circulating in 1957, only with special editions being released until 1977, when O Tico-Tico ceased to exist.