Another youngster in the comics ... and the strip had not yet been taken over by his country pal, Snuffy Smith. (Now we see the work of the prolific Billy de Beck.) Another archetype of the era was ...

The Toonerville Trolley in Fontaine Fox’s popular comic strip was inspired by the four-wheeler Fox saw on the Brook Street route in Louisville; its cantankerous skipper was patterned after a ...

These had been adapted from the Toonerville Trolley comic strip, which contained a character named Mickey McGuire. Joe Yule briefly became Mickey McGuire legally in order to trump an attempted ...

However, local people called it the Pie, Cake and Biscuit Line or the Toonerville Trolley (after a popular comic strip in the early 1900s.) By whatever name, it provided reliable freight and ...

The following year he made the first of 78 black-and-white short comedies in the role of Mickey McGuire, based on Fontaine Fox’s Toonerville Trolley comic strip. He played Puck in the William ...

Movie audiences first saw him as Mickey McGuire, a tough kid in a battered derby hat, in a series of two-reel shorts based on the comic strip Toonerville Trolley. (The first short in which he had ...

A year later, his mother renamed him Mickey McGuire so he could get a leg up in movie auditions to play a tough lower-class kid from the Toonerville Trolley comic strip that bore that name.

I am a longtime Mickey Rooney fan and want the toy. A. The story is about Mickey Rooney and a comic-strip toy. The Toonerville Trolley, a funny electric street car, was featured in "Toonerville ...

I am a longtime Mickey Rooney fan and want the toy. The story is about Mickey Rooney and a comic-strip toy. The Toonerville Trolley, a funny electric street car, was featured in “Toonerville ...

Toonerville Trolley Question: When I was little I played with a Toonerville Trolley. I still have it. The comic-strip character Skipper is the driver. It's made of painted tin and is in mint ...

More films were made there over the next three years, including a popular series of two-reelers based on the Toonerville Trolley comic strip. But the studio was not the operation it had been under ...