Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for January 25, 2009

Great artwork.

good toon!

Hey! That looks like my house! Where’d he hide that camera???

(I’m not joking, relatives have moved in and set up camp, we may have to move. This hits really close to home for me.)

“Arf” indeed!

Wonder if Barney is aware of his 21st century namesake.

Newenglandah: Buck Rogers or maybe Flash Gordon?

I love it!

Buck Rogers and Wilma are near Mandrake. That might be Steve Canyon at leftmost bottom. Secret Agent X-9 between Mandrake and Annie, Jungle Jim behind Annie… Flash and Dale getting cozy. Wash Tubbs, Don Winslow…

Don’t know the white-haired guy behind Canyon… by the way, there’s a new wikipedia.org entry for “Don Winslow of the Navy (comics)” that tells how that character started out as a recruiting tool for the US Navy– very interesting reading.

Wow, Axe-Grinder, I’m impressed!

I don’t know the white-haired guy at all. Beneath him is Terry of Pirates fame (altho he naturally resembles Steve Canyon, both by Milton Caniff). I knew Don Winslow only from the movie serials “D.W. of the Navy” and “D.W. of the Coast Guard”. Likewise Jungle Jim. (Early ’50s TV was filled with old movie serials; note my avatar.) Never knew Wash Tubbs. The bird Rudy in the title panel: he wasn’t from Smilin’ Jack, was he? But I was always ticked off by getting the Little King story wrong in an I.Q. test; I liked my version better.

pschearer, I would say if that’s Terry, it’s the later George Wunder version– which is what I grew up on, so why didn’t I think of that?! I forgot Mary Worth there behind Tarzan. MW’s Ken Ernst was a wonderful artist for glamorous women… again wikipedia has a nice little article about him, and links to some cool photos of him sketching co-eds in 1947.

Funny, how most of these guys never seem to age, unlike the folks down at Gasoline Alley. When I was a kid I always wanted to learn how to gesture hypnotically, like Mandrake.

I learned to read from Prince Valiant comics. Comics have been the highlight of my day for about 70 years and counting.

It looks like MaxStarmanJones gave up too quickly. A nice Walt comic, with alot of old friends. Very cool. Maybe Walt can make an annual trip to the old comics home.

Wait a minute– is the white-haired guy Brick Bradford? I read that every day. Could be him. Will Jim ever tell us for sure?

Jim says ‘Red Barry’– though shouldn’t his hair be red? I don’t know, that’s one I never read!

Dypak:

I was late getting online today, but you are right! I am elated by this comic today. It’s GA at its classical best. I only wonder what “selling the house” means. Are we about to see Walt move into the “old comics home?”

Thanks to Mr. Scancarelli for a job WELL DONE!

Now that is a true comics fan!

I just love it when Jim invites a whole gang of comic strip characters. I always clipped and saved those moments, now I print.

Well here the break down 90: Barney Google 85: Wash Tubbs & Annie 80: Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Popeye 75: Terry & The Pirates, Red Barry, Mandrake the Magician, Secret Agent X-9, Jungle Jim, Flash Gordon, Don Winslow & L’ll Abner, Snuffy Smith, Mary Worth, Little King

Wasn’t Wash Tubbs Captain Easys sidekick??

I’m still reading most of these “guys and gals” and have for many delightful years!!

Ensemble cast.

Where’s Alley Oop!?!?!?