FORMAL FUNNIES

Credit: NY Times Crossword
June 1, 1997

Randolph Ross

Can you give the formal names of these characters from comic strips who are all well-known, but by their less-formal names?

1. Funnies' flapper

2. Funnies' tree denizen

3. Funnies' hapless victim

4. Funnies' fighter

5. Funnies' big-eared rodent

6. Funnies' gumshoe

Answers:

1. Elizabeth Boop

2. Woodrow Woodpecker

3. Charles Brown

4. Joseph Palooka

5. Michael Mouse

6. Richard Tracy