The Harvey Comics product was always about duplicating the feats of the New York animated cartoons in both sheen, design and staging, even before the company got the license for the Famous Studios characters. Here’s an oddity from Nutty Comics #6 (February-March 1947) that’s a direct ripoff of not a Famous pair, but a Terrytoons pair: the genial Dimwit and Percy.
That isn’t a surprise, because the artist is Terry director and animator Connie Rasinski (identified by Milton Knight). It’s drawn with considerably more vigor than his many legit Terry comics—perhaps he was having a particularly good day. (Maybe Paul Terry had just lied to him once again about giving him a piece of the pie when he finally sold the studio.)
