The strip ended when Barnaby finally reached his sixth birthday, the magical point beyond which he could no longer have a fairy godfather. With much regret, Mr. O'Malley left, and so did Johnson, to pursue other interests.
Selected strips from Barnaby were re-published in the 1960s by Dover Books[?], and later reprints from the 1980s still command high prices from used book sellers.
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