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On March 5, 1919, the British tabloid The Mirror published a comic strip titled, The Pocket Telephone: When Will It Ring. The answer to that question was, according to the illustration, essentially all the time: A Snopes reader asked us to confirm the comic's authenticity; it was truly a creative work from 1919. According to the British Cartoon Archive, the comic was created by W. K. Haselden and first published in The Mirror on March 5, 1919. It was subsequently republished on Jan., 23, 1923, with the caption, When we all have pocket telephones. For those reasons, we rated this claim True. The comic was seemingly a response to a claim by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company — an early player in long-distance wireless communication — that it was not far off from the realization of a pocket-sized wireless phone, as described in a widely syndicated March 1919 wire report: Also on Snopes:
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