Kevin the Bold

"Kevin the Bold (1950–68) was a comic strip whose main character originally appeared as a supporting character in the comic strip Mitzi McCoy, a creation of artist and writer Kreigh Collins, which began as a Sunday comic strip on November 7, 1948, launched by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA).

But after less than two years into the strip, on September 24, 1950, one of the characters tells the story of Kevin, a shepherd who saves a medieval ancestor to Mitzi, Moya McCoy. The story begins in 1497, with the landing of Moorish pirates on the Irish coast, in search of slaves. All of a sudden, the following week, the comic strip changed its title to Kevin the Bold, and the supporting character Kevin becomes the main character in what became a historical adventure comic strip." Wikipedia