Mickey Finn

    (Eastern, 1942-1949)
™ and ©1942 Eastern Color Printing Co.

Mickey Finn is an Irish cop on the beat, whose humorous adventures focus at least as much on the comic interplay of the various stereotyped characters as on the ostensible crime and action storyline. Drawn by Lank Leonard in a goofy, funny-pages style that’s one part Dick Tracy and two parts Barney Google, Mickey Finn’s crime-busting antics take him to all manner of settings, from the inner city to the rural countryside.

Fast-moving, fun, and innocently unsophisticated, Mickey Finn is nonetheless marred by the gratuitous use of racial and ethnic stereotypes of Irish, Blacks, Jews, and Asians that is conspicuous and notably offensive even for the 1940s. Early issues featured backup stories of “Bo,” a saucer-eyed orphan and his dog.
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