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| | Half Hitch - Don Markstein's Toonopedia |
 | | Like most young men at the time, Hank Ketcham, who later became famous as the creator of Dennis the Menace, was a full-time military man. Unlike most, his job processing photos and drawing cartoons for the U.S. Navy left him with his evenings free. |
 | | A former animator, first for Walter Lantz and later for Walt Disney, he used the time to freelance cartoons to civilian magazines, drawing inspiration from the institution he was immersed in by day. |
 | | Half Hitch, a sort of Navy version of George Baker's Sad Sack, but without a name, ran a couple of years in The Saturday Evening Post, starting in 1943. |
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