• Percy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip Skippy. Adapted...
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    pre-Code comedy film based on the popular comic strip and novel Skippy by Percy Crosby. The screenplay was by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod...
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    Skippy is an American comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that was published from 1923 to 1945. A highly popular, acclaimed and influential feature...
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  • sentiments. Public response to the speech was mixed. Famed cartoonist Percy Crosby, creator of Skippy (comic strip) and very outspoken Roosevelt critic...
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  • Company's Jif brand worldwide. The name "Skippy" was trademarked in 1925 by Percy Crosby, creator of the popular "Skippy" comic strip (1923–1945), which had been...
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    (Krazy Kat), Roy Crane (Wash Tubbs), Elzie C. Segar (Thimble Theatre) and Percy Crosby (Skippy) as influences. In a 1994 address to fellow cartoonists, Schulz...
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    Broadway and television actor was born and raised in Richmond Hill Percy Crosby (1891–1964), creator of the comic Skippy Danny Fields (born 1939), music...
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    Corey Ford. Among the illustrators and cartoonists were Ralph Barton, Percy Crosby, Don Herold, Ellison Hoover, H. T. Webster, Art Young and John Held,...
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  • Skippy – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz, based on the comic strip by Percy Crosby Best Sound Recording Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department‡ MGM Studio...
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    the grounds. John R. Buckmaster (1915–1983) Jim Clinton (1850–1921) Percy Crosby (1891–1964) West Funk (1841–1897) David J. Impastato (1903–1986) Olga...
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  • Academy Award nominee for Best Picture. Based on the comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby. Followed by Sooky, released in December. Gun Smoke All-Talking May 2...
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  • Alumnae (1969–1976) by Mary Gauerke (US) Always Belittlin' (1930–1940) by Percy Crosby (US) Amal Aloy by Amal Chakrabarti (Southeast Asia) The Amazing Spider-Man...
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    Burnett Skippy Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Sam Mintz The comic strip by Percy Crosby 1931/32 (5th) Bad Girl Edwin J. Burke The novel by Viña Delmar and play...
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  • illustrator and comics artist (Wot A Life), dies at age 85. December 8: Percy Crosby, American comics artist (Skippy), dies at age 83. December 10: Bob Kuwahara...
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  • Cheerful Cherub by Rebecca McCann (c. 1916–1927) The Clancy Kids by Percy Crosby (1916–c. 1919) Finn an' Haddie by Billy DeBeck (1916) Miss Information...
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     Władysław Skoczylas (POL) Posters 1932 Los Angeles  Lee Blair (USA) Rodeo  Percy Crosby (USA) Jackknife  Gerhard Westermann (NED) Horseman 1936 Berlin none awarded...
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  • Gruelle, edited by Rick Marschall Percy Crosby's Skippy, vol. 1 (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) by Percy Crosby, edited by Jared Gardner and Dean...
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    Notable contributors included a fledgling Maxwell Anderson, and cartoonist Percy Crosby, then a sports columnist. Frank Munsey bought the paper in 1923. Munsey...
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    "Struggle" none awarded Watercolors and drawings  Lee Blair (USA) "Rodeo"  Percy Crosby (USA) "Jackknife"  Gerhard Westermann (NED) "Horseman" Prints  Joseph...
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  • Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas is a 1977 Christmas television special starring Bing Crosby and his family with special guests Twiggy, David Bowie...
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  • named Cuto (translation: Cutter). Originally a strip in the vein of Percy Crosby's Skippy, the character became a globe trotting and time-travelling boy...
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    William Crosby Percy Austin (12 June 1884 – 15 June 1975) was an English character actor. He was the first actor to play Alfred in a Batman adaptation...
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  • was Percy Crosby. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officer Reserve Corps in 1916 and being called to active service the following year, Crosby was...
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  • Piro (US) Skeets (1932–1951) by Dow O. Walling Skippy (1923–1945) by Percy Crosby (US) Sky Masters (1958–1961) by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Dick and Dave...
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    Councillor: Billy Yovanovich Councillors: Duane Alsop, Lyndale George, David Crosby, Michelle McDonald, Trent Moraes, Michelle Pineault, Robert Russ. Chief...
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  • Walter Berndt, George McManus, Leslie Turner, Harry Haenigsen, and Percy Crosby. In the early 1900s the World was known as "the promised land for aspiring...
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  • McGinnis; it was a virtual clone, in character and tone, of the popular Percy Crosby strip Skippy (which was syndicated by King Features Syndicate). In April...
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  • created by writer-artist George Marcoux, who had previously assisted Percy Crosby on the comic strip Skippy. Koppy McFad has read so many comic books ("he...
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  • 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor, it...
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    cartoonist Al Smith's Mutt and Jeff, Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka, and Percy Crosby's Skippy. Eastern Color neither sold this periodical nor made it available...
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