Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for May 11, 2013

Anybody who was expecting Dick Tracy will have to settle for Fearless Fosdick . . .

I thought Fosdick was at the Home for Defective Detectives.

Dick Tracy isn’t retired. Fearless Fosdick, who was Al Capp’s satire of Tracy, is. By the way, who are the other characters in today’s strip?

From left to right: Pa from Cliff Sterrett’s “Polly and Her Pals,” Happy Hooligan by Frederick B. Opper, Pepsi and Pete (marketing characters for the soft drink), Pottsy by Jay Irving, and Fearless Fosdick from Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner.” I was hoping Pottsy might show up this week!

Wow! This is REALLY some excellent work, Jim!

The irony is that the brooch probably is right where it fell — when Maggie dropped it in reaction to Smokey Stover’s entrance.

Those are the Pepsi-Cola cops: http://www.adbranch.com/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-cola_cop_fireman_and_elephant_1946-610×848.jpg

still smilin’thanks Jim

These are Cartoon Cops. No movie cops allowed.

Strictly speaking, Fearless Fosdick was a strip-within-a-strip.

Maggie looks a lot better when she’s unconscious…!

Fearless Fosdick! My ideal!

Watch out, when Fosdick is around the lead is going to start flying.

Didn’t Fosdick normally have a bullet hole showing in his head?(Even for a cartoon that bothered this young 7 year old 1962)

Fosdick had bullet holes all over—but only when he’d recently been shot. (“Just a flesh wound, chief!”) He hasn’t been shot yet in this story.

umm..NO..this not only pre-dates Happy Daysit has nothing to do with Happy Days program.

Of all the characters I’ve recognized so far, the renderings are great. Fearless Fosdick is just perfect!

This just gets better and better. Loving the arc, and especially the artwork! Great job, Jim!!

I guess you have to be over 80 to appreciate these strips. I don’t recognize most of these old characters.