Talk:Jack Holt (actor)

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"Holt was the visual inspiration for Chester Gould's 'Dick Tracy' and Al Capp's 'Fearless Fosdick.'" Now, how in the world would anyone know that?96.235.138.179 (talk) 16:45, 3 October 2017 (UTC)Adolf Fiddler
 * See Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen, Page 270, Note 110, New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.96.248.116.130 (talk) 03:13, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Da'Shawn Bivens

Page 270, Note 110: “Al Capp may have had more than Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy in mind when he created bumbling detective Fearless Fosdick. Artists and comics historians Peter Poplaski and Frank Stack believe Capp’s previously uncredited influence was Holt of the Secret Service, a fifteen-chapter serial film released by Columbia Pictures in 1941. Fearless Fosdick first appeared in 'L’il Abner' in November 1941. Secret Service agent Jack Holt plays it straight in the serial, but with his similar hat, mustache and square jaw he looks very much like a human version of Capp’s detective.”96.248.116.130 (talk) 21:50, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Adlai Stevenowicz