Mary Tourtel was created in 1920, at a time when the "Express" was in competition with "The Daily Mail" and its then popular comic strip "Teddy Tail", as well as the strip "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred" in "The Daily Mirror". The then news editor of the "Express", Herbert Tourtel, was approached with the task of producing a new comic strip to rival those of the "Mail" and "Mirror" and immediately thought of his wife Mary, already an established author and artist. Rupert Bear was the result and was first published as a nameless character in a strip titled "Little Lost Bear" on
Daily Express (Dublin) Daily Express (Dublin) The Daily Express of Dublin (often referred to as the Dublin Daily Express, to distinguish it from the "Daily Express" of London) and the "Daily Express (Malaysia)" was an Irish newspaper published from 1851 to June 1921, and then continued for registration purposes until 1960. It was a unionist newspaper. From 1917, its title was the Daily Express and Irish Daily Mail. In its heyday, it had the highest circulation of any paper in Ireland. In his "Post Famine Ireland" (2006), Desmond Keenan says of the newspaper: In 1858, Karl Marx, writing in the "New York Tribune",