Sunday, May 19, 2013

DFG to Release Unpublished Dailies from the Todd Abbot Studio

By Bob Barnes, special to DFG Online

We have just learned from inside sources that DFG is planning to release a 2009 aborted daily strip version of the popular 1980's DFG TV series, "Mitchum and Felix."  The classic program (which is now available on VHS cassette) featured Dan Graves as the hard-boiled PI, Mitchum, and Peter Repas as his geeky computer-savvy side-kick, Felix.  This award-winning series followed up Graves and Repas's earlier acclaimed private detective outing, "the Holden and Bates Mystery Hour."

It seems that in 2009 DFG contracted the Todd Abbot Studio to produce a daily strip of "Mitchum and Felix", but the strip was never released as the result of the so-called "DFG Implosion" of that same year when DFG ceased publishing as a result of a major lawsuit launched against it by Todd Abbot, seeking ownership for content and characters he claimed to have created while "ghosting" for DFG over the years.

Recent reports seem to indicate that DFG and Abbot have buried the hatchet and are once again on collaborative terms.  Could the release of this lost work signal a new springtime for DFG?  Only time will tell!  Pictured below is the lost artwork for the "Mitchum and Felix" daily.

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