Joe Palooka
Joe Palooka is Ham Fisher's boxing comic-strip character whose adaptations included a 15-minute CBS radio series.
Joe Palooka, an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, was originally created by cartoonist Ham Fisher. The strip debuted on April 19, 1930, and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers. The McNaught Syndicate cancelled the strip with effect from November 1984.
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Joe Palooka. Radio program.
Original schedule
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Adelaide Klein
Cast
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Jimmy McCallion
Cast
A
Alan Reed (aka Teddy Bergman)
Joe Palooka
A
Arthur 'Art' Hern
Second Run
D
Dick Good
Second Run
E
EElmira Roessler
Ann Howe - Second Run
Eloise Kummer
Second Run
EElsie Hitz
Anne Howe
Frank Readick
Knobby Walsh
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JHal Lansing
Knobby Walsh - Second Run
Jack Petruzzi
Second Run
JJess Pugh
Second Run
J
Joan Lundeen
Second Run
J
Joe Rockhold
Second Run
Karl Swenson
Joe Palooka - Second Run
Mary Jane Higby
Ann Howe- Second Run
MMurray Forbes
Second Run
NNorman Gottschalk
Joe Palooka - Second run
TTed Bergman
Cast
TTeddy Bergman
Joe Palooka
Allen Prescott
Writer
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