Mort Weisinger and Julius Schwartz were obviously paying homage
to the magazine where they got their start."
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Posted on 09/24/2005 10:23:39 PM PDT by lunarbicep
LOS ANGELES Thomas Ross Bond, who played Butch the bully in the "Our Gang" comedies of the 1930s and 40s, has died.
He was 79.
His manager says Bond died this afternoon at Northridge Hospital from complications of heart disease.
Bond appeared in some 40 movies in the "Our Gang" and "Little Rascals" serials. He originally played one of the gang under the name Tommy but went on to the role of the bully who torments Alfalfa and the other kids.
Bond also played Jimmy Olsen in two Superman movies in the 1940s and appeared as Joey Pepper in several installments of the "Five Little Peppers" serial.
He retired from acting in 1951 and held various TV production and directing jobs before retiring from a Fresno TV station in 1991.
Services are pending.
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The blurb in the lower left hand corner really caught my interest. That's a Bester story I've never heard of before.
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