Gravel gertie comic book character

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Gravel gertie was a character in the dick tracy segments of the 1971 animated television series archies tv funnies, produced by filmation associates. Gravel gertie was a character in chester goulds popular dick tracy comic strip. It was named after the character of the same name from the dick tracy comics. The comic strip dick tracy has introduced numerous characters. She had been introduced in 1944 as an accomplice of the. Plenty are two of the major recurring characters in the dick tracy comic strip. This process takes no more than a few hours and well send you an email once approved. Flys dick tracy comments put me in mind of my favorite dt character, mumbles the bandleader, who would book a gig and then rob the party and. Gravel gertie was a woman who lived in a gravel pit in a rural area outside dick tracys city. See more ideas about crime comics, magazines for kids and famous detectives. These signed and numbered hardcovers are my avatar press drug of choice. Characters such as the mole, bb eyes, pruneface, flattop, brow, shaky, gravel gertie, b. A gravel gertie is a type of bunker designed to provide containment during the nuclear.

Gravel gerties was the name of a small roadhouse restaurant located on illinois route 14 between crystal lake, illinois and cary, il. Plenty, vitamin flintheart and mumbles were to be household names and are remembered vividly by all who read dick tracy in those years. From dick tracy newspaper strip chicago tribune 19450226 to 19450303. A minor player in the dick tracy comic strips, yet omnipresent in my lifes. Dick tracy returns to his glory days in the top 100 classic radio shows. Measles clubs tracy and ties him to the back of the car. It stretches from hinton, west virginia to clifton forge, virginia and delivered limestone gravel quarried from fort spring to the iron furnaces of virginia as a fluxing agent. Gertie is a crazy old widow that lives alone in the gravel. The gravel gertie was developed for the atomic energy commission in 1957 by sandia national laboratories. Bb eyes, pruneface, flattop, brow, shaky, gravel gertie, b.

The author of dick tracy who lived locally, adopted the name for his character. Dick tracy returns to his glory days in the top 100. She was depicted as extremely homely, with bulging eyes, crooked. Gerties appearance closely resembled her depiction in the comic strip. I feel as if i should know this nostalgic character, gravel gertie. Bob coxs yesteryear comic strips a wistful passage back to yesteryear bob cox aug 14, 2017 at 12.