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That 1940s Sherlock Holmes parody comic strip was pencilled by the pen-named, Beck The Alley Cop (Joe Beck), and inked by his oft-time partner, Otto Epperson, for Chesler Publications (for either a Chesler or a Centaur book.  It was similar to Gus Mager's Hawkshaw The Detective, Dinky Dinkerton, Inspector Klooz, Flatfoot Burns, and so many other comedy Holmes parodies.

Here is Page 1 of the 2-page extended gag, in comic book format (perhaps originally drawn for new comic book material, as opposed to having been adapted from comic strip format?):


I wonder if it is from one of the Punch Comics missing from CB+ and DCM, because Beck and Epperson were regulars, teaming up to work on most of the Punch Comics, including an advertising page for Issue No. 1.  Issue numbers 3-8 are said to have never been used.  But I also wonder about that.  Beck and Epperson teamed up to work on Punch's "Punch and Cutey", and "Happy Landing", "Little Joe", "Daffy Dills", "Jest For Fun", and "Handy Andy", as well as "Foxy Grandpa", and also drew several of the magazine's front covers.

I hope someone on this forum recognises it, and can lead me to the particular PD comic book series that printed it (I hope, regularly).

Thanks for any help.