Where's Wally?

UK Walker Books, London, 1987 precedes and is the true first. The American edition is the retitled Where's Waldo?, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1987 (ISBN 0-316-34293-9), confirmed at 1987 by independent library catalogue records; the rename was made because a Little, Brown executive disliked "Wally." It is a first American edition of the same book, not a true first, but it is separately and seriously collected and should be named alongside the Walker. The census claim is confirmed, including the Little, Brown 1987 date (one secondary summary gives 1988; library cataloguing supports 1987). The many localised names elsewhere — Charlie in France, Walter in Germany, Ubaldo in Italy — are translations, not competing firsts.