From the Dick Buchanan Files: Even More Cops and Robbers Cartoons 1939 - 1970

Cat and Mouse, Boss and Employee, Husband and Wife ... the history of gag cartooning is replete with these adversaries who go after each other, and, so far as we're concerned, it's all to get BIG cartoon laffs in the end. Today, the adversaries are cops and robbers.

Here's a great collection of gag cartoons that were saved through the years and now presented by the great magazine cartoon connoisseur of our time, Dick Buchanan.

Oh, did you miss the first parts? That's criminal! Here they are:

From the Dick Buchanan Files: Cops and Robbers Magazine Gag Cartoons 1899 - 1965
Dick Buchanan's Cartoon Files: More Cops and Robbers Gag Cartoons 1947 - 1968

Thank you and take it away, Dick!

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COPS and ROBBERS

1939 – 1970

The misadventures robbers and the bumbling cops who pursue them has been a subject of gag cartoons ever since the 19h century when gag cartooning began. Here are some cartoons featuring the humorous side of crime as illustrated by some of the leading cartoonists of the mid 20th century. As always in the cartoon universe, it’s all in fun and no one gets hurt. 


1.  HANK KETCHAM. The Saturday Evening Post  December 10, 1949.

2.  ROBERT DAY.  This Week Magazine  April 13. 1952.

3.  BARNEY TOBEY.  The Saturday Evening Post  May 15, 1948.

4.  TOM HENDERSON.  The Saturday Evening Post  July 17, 1948.

5.  CHARLES RODRIGUES.  Laugh Parade  May, 1967. 

6.  MELL LAZARUS.  The Saturday Evening Post.  September 24, 1949.

7.  LARRY REYNOLDS.  Collier’s  May 13, 1939.     

8.  CLYDE LAMB.  1000 Jokes Magazine  Fall, 1950.

9.  ROBERT BUGG.  Collier’s  April 26, 1941.   

10. VIRGIL PARTCH.  True Magazine  November, 1948. 

 11.  LEE LORENZ.  1000 Jokes Magazine  March – May, 1965.

12.  GEORGE RECKAS.  Liberty Magazine  December 28, 1946.

13.  CHON DAY.  The Saturday Evening Post  June 12, 1949.

14.  RICHARD OLDDEN.  True Magazine  February, 1970.

15.  VAHAN SHIVANIAN.  1000 Jokes Magazine  March – May, 1964.  

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From the Dick Buchanan Files: Cops and Robbers Magazine Gag Cartoons 1899 - 1965

Dick Buchanan's Cartoon Files: More Cops and Robbers Gag Cartoons 1947 - 1968