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Mark Frauenfelder at 12:18 pm Fri, Sep 7, 2012

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

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  • AdrenalineSleep

    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?