11 Funniest Addams Family Comics Starring Wednesday (From the Original Comic Strip)

Wednesday Addams wasn’t originally created as an Addams Family child – her first appearance in 1940 was that of a haunted-looking young girl, jump roping by the light of the streetlamp in the middle of the night. As creator Charles Addams started linking together many of his macabre characters into an actual family, he knew she had to be the child of his first Addams character Morticia. A friend of Charles Addams’ thought the girl’s name should be Wednesday, after an old English poem with the line, “Wednesday’s child is full of woe,” suggesting that children born on Wednesdays will have bad luck. However, in her many appearances across page, stage, and screen, Wednesday Addams has shown herself to be more likely to create trouble than suffer from it.