Anybody remember that offbeat noir classic " Get Bumstead"? ...made around 1949? --Y'know... the whole movie's a flashback told by Dagwood's bullet-riddled corpse? Anybody? ...Okay, who knows why Wally Wood would do a study of Blondie's other half being gunned down (presumably in a dark alley) but he did, and it's nutty enough to be the fifth entry in this series. Rendered in the usual inimitable Wood style.
Seems to me this was part of Dick Tracy themed satire from Mad Magazine. I knid of remember it as being a Gilbert & Sullivan style operatta, but I might be confusing two different Tracy satires. I recall there's at least one panel where Dagwood is lying in a pool of his own blood spouting dialog. FWIW.
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Craig
Craig is on the right track. I remember the MAD article too - kind of a Mickey Spillane/Comic book musical. The Wood artwork was superb (as always) and I remember specifically the huge, realistic blood splatters that dripped from Dagwood as he sang his final refrain.
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