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Unable to pronounce Tracy's name correctly (usually calling him Macy or some variant thereof). He and Gertie are the parents of Sparkle Plenty, who married to Junior Tracy. In an Archie's TV Funnies episode, he appeared as a captive of "Pear Shape" Tone who tried to capture Dick Tracy. Gravel Gertie - Former criminal and now wife of B.O. Plenty ...
The first cartoon series was produced from 1960 to 1961 by UPA. Tracy employed a series of cartoon-like subordinate flatfoots to fight crime each week, contacting them on his two-way wrist radio. Everett Sloane voiced Tracy and supporting characters and villains were voiced by Jerry Hausner, Mel Blanc, Benny Rubin, Johnny Coons, Paul Frees and ...
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
Since all Gravel Gerties currently in service were built during the 1950s and 60s, they have begun to break down from years of wear. In July 1994 the Dallas Morning News reported that the 13 Gerties at Pantex were showing gaps as large as 3/4" (19 mm) around their entry doors due to repetitive wear and were unable to be sealed, thus negating their likely value in an explosion.
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.
Eddie Paul (May 30, 1948 – July 12, 2016 [1] [2]) was an American inventor. Paul was the owner of design house E.P. Industries, Inc and held multiple U.S. patents. He was born in San Francisco , California, and resided in El Segundo .
The silent age of American animation dates back to at least 1906 when Vitagraph released Humorous Phases of Funny Faces. [1] Although early animations were rudimentary, they rapidly became more sophisticated with such classics as Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914, Felix the Cat, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Koko the Clown.
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.