Cameos In The Comics

Various movie stars turned up as characters in the comics.


Mary Astor* on the cover of MOLLY O'DAY ( 1945 ): inside, the character resembles SALLY THE SLEUTH.

 

 

 

A Joe Penner page from 1938 was reprinted in MOLLY O'DAY.

 

The duck is there because he had an act where he kept asking everyone if they wanted to buy a duck.

                            The character of Dixie Dugan was based on Louise Brooks.

 

MY FRIEND IRMA was based on a character that Marie Wilson played, and we see a picture of Marie Wilson herself on the cover along with the cartoon character.

 

 

 

 

                                        Moronica was like another version of Marie Wilson.

 

 

 

Moronica with someone who looks like Grady Sutton

 

 

 

 

 

STARLET O'HARA had red hair and might have been meant to be like Rita Hayworth. Her friend Fritzi made a reference to having hair like Hedy Lamarr. There were some movie stars in their stories.

 

 

Gregory Peck with Starlet O'Hara

 

 

 

 

 

Cary Grant ( "Gary Brant" ) with Starlet O'Hara.

 

 

 

 

"Eastmore" would be one of the Westmores.

 

 

 

 

Bud Westmore, turning Lon Chaney Jr. into the Wolfman,

 

 

for the movie ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTIEN.

 

 

 

 

 

Rita Hayworth in CRYPT OF SHADOWS.

 

 

 

 

Boris Karloff in CRYPT OF SHADOWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marilyn Monroe in LI'L ABNER by Frank Frazetta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marilyn Monroe in MUTT AND JEFF by Bud Fisher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see Marilyn Monroe in a lot of different comics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Danny Thomas And Joe E. Brown in MILLIE THE LOVABLE MONSTER.

 

 

 

 

 

Liz Taylor with HERBIE.

 

 

 

 

Frank Sinatra with HERBIE.

 

 

 

 

Dean Martin with HERBIE.

 

 

 

 

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra with HERBIE.

 

 

 

 

 

Jimmy Finlayson - "Felix MacFinney" - in a Jimmy Olsen story by Jack Kirby

 

 

 

 

 

Laurel and Hardy characters in an Asterix story.

 

 

 

 

 

Laurel and Hardy characters in PRINCE VALIENT. 

*Dale thought this might have been related to Mary Astor having been in THE MALTESE FALCON.


Marilyn Monroe in LI'L ABNER:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/11/lil-abner-by-frank-frazetta.html

Marilyn Monroe in MUTT AND JEFF:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2014/02/mutt-and-jeff.html

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in HERBIE:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2014/02/herbie-5.html

MOLLY O'DAY:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2014/02/molly-oday.html

Moronica and Starlet O'Hara:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2014/02/moronica-starlet-ohara-1.html

MY FRIEND IRMA:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-friend-irma-45.html

Queen Nemone, Thelma Todd, and Tarzan:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/tarzan-and-city-of-gold.html

Sally The Sleuth, Dick Tracy, and Thelma Todd:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/02/dick-tracy-and-madonna.html

Westmores:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmore_family

http://books.google.com/books?id=LQsB66qPGmgC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=westmore+thelma+todd&source=bl&ots=aqkv4Ls2O3&sig=UIqG84RgsFdemCgIEmxg723IveY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b99CU9bYKMHP2wWZ14HQDg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=westmore%20thelma%20todd&f=false

Toby Wing in Dick Tracy comics:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/06/toby-wing-in-dick-tracy-comics.html

Wheeler and Woolsey in SUPERMAN:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/wheeler-and-woolsey-in-superman-comics.html



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