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Gravel Gertie - Former criminal and now wife of B.O. Plenty. Introduced in The Brow storyline in 1944. Introduced in The Brow storyline in 1944. She was a widow for thirty years after her first husband sold her farm rights to turn the farm into a gravel pit and then died when his car backed into his own gravel pit in 1914.
The Plenty family was a group of goofy redneck yokels headed by the former villain Bob Oscar ("B.O."), along with Gertrude ("Gravel Gertie") Plenty. Gravel Gertie was introduced as the unwitting dupe of the villain the Brow, who was on the run from Dick Tracy. The family provided a humorous counterpoint to Tracy's adventures.
A Gravel Gertie has thick reinforced concrete walls and roof, but a large vent in the top to prevent the shell from rupturing in an explosion. Below the roof, however, is approximately 7 metres of loosely compressed porous gravel suspended from steel cables above a false ceiling over the work area. In the event of an explosion, the mass of ...
Gertie, in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Gertie Gator, one of the toys in the PBS Kids series Noddy. Gertie Growlerstien, a fictional monster from the Disney Junior TV series Henry Hugglemonster; Gravel Gertie (character), in the comic strip Dick Tracy; The title character of Gertie the Dinosaur, a 1914 film
Gould's character leads a gang of three hoods and is known as an "ace killer" in one newspaper headline shown in the comic strip (having committed five murders). In the storyline in which Flattop is the featured villain, black marketeers hire him to eliminate Dick Tracy for a fee of $5,000: five times his regular rate.
Why Fat Cartoon Characters Resonate with Audiences. Typically, television and films, both live-action and animated, don't proportionally represent all body types. For this reason, fat cartoon ...
In a recent episode of Gasoline Alley showing retired cartoon characters, one storyline has Maggie of Bringing up Father's pearl necklace missing. Fearless Fosdick is his usual incompetent stupid self - he wrongly thinks Walt Wallet is the thief.
Gould, his characters, and improbable plots were satirized in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner with the Fearless Fosdick sequences (supposedly drawn by "Lester Gooch"); [17] a notable villain was Bomb Face, a gangster whose head was a bomb. [18] Gould retired in 1977, with his last Dick Tracy strip appearing in print on Christmas Day, December 25.