"kicky" antedating

[Mullins, Bill]

>From OED
3. Providing 'kicks', exciting, lively. N. Amer. colloq

first cite in OED is 1968.

>From "The Adventures of Bob Hope" comic book, #99, Jun-Jul 1966

"Me!  Super-Hip!  That Wild Card in the Dull Deck of Destiny!  That Kicky
Kid in a Cosmos of Human Cubes!"  From the story "Super-Hope Meets
Super-Hip!" written by Arnold Drake, page 4, panel 5.

online at:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/closeup.php?image=bobhope9
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