Today in Comics History, October 1: Happy birthday, Everett Sloane!

Born on this day in 1909: character actor Everett Sloane, who's been in Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Lust for Life, The Desert Fox and other movies, plus television episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Route 66 and lots more. On radio, he was a regular player on Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air and played on s Inner Sanctum and The Shadow (as the Shadow's personal cabbie Shrevie). He was also the voice of Dick Tracy in the problematic 1961 cartoon version of The Dick Tracy Show:


from Dick Tracy (August 12, 1990), text by Max Allan Collins, art by Dick Locher. Special thanks to pal Greg A. who posted this strip on Twitter.
Sloane also co-starred in Marlon Brando's 1950 film debut The Men, a great faorite of Harvey Pekar's:


from "Harvey Pekar's Lost and Found: The Men" in Entertainment Weekly; reprinted in American Splendor: Our Movie Year (random House, December 2004); script by Harvey Pekar; pencils, inks, and letters by Gary Dumm
Happy birthday, Everett!