The setting was a medieval world filled with anachronisms and puns.
(In that, it resembled Jack Kent's King Aroo, distributed by the same syndicate.)
The strip ran in a small number of US newspapers from 1957 to 1967, as well as in The Canberra Times from 1960 to 1966.
[1] In 2022, Rick Norwood, editor of Comics Revue, purchased the copyright to Sir Bagby, so he could keep the strip in print.
The main characters are Sir Bagby, a knight, King Filbert I, II ("King Filbert I was my father.