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With the Yellow Kid's merchandising success as an advertising icon the strip came to represent the crass commercial world it had originally lampooned, and publication of both versions stopped abruptly after only three years in early 1898, as circulation wars between the rival papers dwindled.
Moreover, Outcault may have lost interest in the character when he realized he couldn't retain exclusive commercial control over it.
The Yellow Kid's last appearance is most often noted as 23 January 1898 in a strip about hair tonic.
On 1 May 1898, the character was featured in a rather satirical cartoon called Casey Corner Kids Dime Museum but he was drawn ironically, as a bearded, balding old man wearing a green nightshirt which bore the words: " Gosh I've growed old in making dis collection.

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