Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for November 29, 2018

I see Moon Mullins and Mamie on the right, I go Pogo at the bottom left, while only The Shadow knows the guy on the left edge.

I think the guy on the left edge is Harold Teen’s “fran”, Shadow Smart.

Pogo appears today… when I was still in college (around 1989), I remember a re-launch of the Pogo comic strip. I’ll have to look up when it died off again…

The Shadow was a newspaper strip, in addition to being a pulp magazine, a comic book, and a radio show. Walter Gibson invented the character, and wrote two novels a month – about 300 total. And about a hundred other books, mostly about magic. And I guess he had a little free time, since he also wrote the comic strip.

I forgot to add bacon to my list.

“… for future comics to live by!” Methinks that’s saying something.

the Shadow knows….that’s an old joke

The Shadow! Walt has the power to cloud his own mind !!

This right here is why I love Gasoline Alley so much. A great backstory, simple, homespun humor, exceptional art and respect for the comic and the comics. I hope to see you in another 100 years, Uncle Walt. If he can hang around like this, I don’t see why I can’t!

So anybody want to ID the canary(?) in panel one?