Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for February 23, 2012

Well with the songs playing on the radio, we can date today’s comic to 1946.

WW2 Marine—Hope you make it here today—I answered you late in yesterday’s strip. Hope your mending and not in too much discomfort—What happened, did you trip, or lose your balance and fall—how did you break your ankle?

I love all this. These cartoon are funny and are a good source of social history.

How can you fail to mention “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy”, brought to you by Wheaties?

It’s pro level silliness.

Ohhhhhh, Jeff!

You really ask for it.

LOL. Funny strip.

xxx

gmartin—I was a DJ on radio then and played both Tex Beneke’s version of Gal in calico and Count Basie’s record of Open the Door Richard which came out in 1947—so the strip would be from 1947 . I remember when Tom Mix died driving through a detour sign-a heavy bunch of items on the shelf in back of him surged forward and broke his neck. At that time poor Tom was having money problems with his Circus.

Wish I still had my Tom Mix decoder ring. Maybe I could decode what’s going on in the world.

This is your announcer saying: “So Long Until Tomorrow”’—-ah yes—memories of that great newscaster Lowell Thomas.