...Why Wally Became Waldo (Season 99, Day 5)

On November 17, 2023, Day 5 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we were tasked, like millions before us, with finding a “distinctive bespectacled literary character and world traveler” who first appeared in print 1987.

I Later Learned why the American and British names were accepted for this question, and why they're different at all. This guy is already so famously difficult to locate, so why the added trouble of adding two different names to the challenge of figuring out Where’s Waldo and Where’s Wally?

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