Cartoon characters gone bad

A botched bank robbery. From a men's adventure magazine. (Via X-Ray Delta One)

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Isn’t it technically “Men in Cartoon Character Masks Gone Bad”? The gentleman on the ground in the lower left appears to have lost his Porky Pig mask. Winnie the Pooh on there hood there too…
- Boundegar
  
  You had to go and ruin it.
- EH
  
  The title refers to the police officers, silly.
http://www.disoriented.net/ angusm

If anyone survives the shoot-out, the subsequent police line-up should be worth seeing. (“Number five, change masks with number three. Yes, you, Daffy.”).
- Brainspore
  
  Oh, sure. Pin it on the BLACK duck.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    That’th dethpicable.
theophrastvs

hmh… all from the Disney pantheon except for Popeye. next bank robbery, try Warner Bros. (and no, that wasn’t “Porky”; think three little pigs)
- Brainspore
  
  …no, that wasn’t “Porky”; think three little pigs
  
  I only see two officers in that picture.
  - kiptw
    
    And Practical Pig.
- kiptw
  
  When was this? ’64? (If only I wasn’t car-blind.) Hm. Disney licensed the Pooh characters in ’61, but didn’t make the first one of their crappy animated movies from them until ’66. It’s kind of borderline, but the mask looks more like the book version than like Disney the Pooh.
Chanfan

Wow, those police officers are being amazingly effective.
Guest

Well now I want to read the story!
http://profiles.google.com/keithdtyler Keith Tyler

oh no dolan

stfu gooby
knoxblox

A six-way split of the take? Not worth it.
- sam1148
  
  How do you think the fighting started?
  - Brainspore
    
    I saw this movie. There’s a guy in a clown mask who set it up that way on purpose.
    - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
      
      Does he have a fake limp?
      - Brainspore
        
        Now you’ve got me thinking how fun it would be to see a Batman/Usual Suspects mashup.
mattcornell

Here’s the cinematic equivalent.

http://youtu.be/yfLax9uUjVw
http://twitter.com/Fongoloid64 Chris

Early concept art for Point Break?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BB2F6VMATUEHIE67ZNWSB2TJC4 D

Scrooge McDuck is the brains of the outfit
- Brainspore
  
  He usually sticks to white collar crime. This really seems more like the Beagle Boys’ M.O.
http://twitter.com/glamaFez glamaFez

Two words: The Donald
kiptw

What a great piece of art. I’m not sure I want to read the story, or if that’d just ruin it for me. Anybody know which magazine it’s from? And when?