Please answer me

Marvel comics would publish 13 issues of The Laff-A-Lympics in 1977-78.

The final issue would have Dred Baron and Mumbly receiving a visit from Dred's brother, Dick Dastradly.

We would see horrible baby pictures of these two, as well as equally dreadful youthful images of them.

It seems Dred sabotaged Dick's wedding, and Dick wanted to thank him as the intended bride had become fantastically obese.

Clearly Muttley and Mumbly were supposed to be from the same litter as well. I believe this was also suggested.

Now if I can piece together all the history, we had Dastradly and Muttley on Wacky Races, then Stop That Pigeon.

Mumbly would turn up and his nemesis in his cartoon wasn't called Dread Baron, he was the Purple Baron or something. Will have to check out to see who he was.

Either way, it wasnt the late, great Paul Winchell who provided the villian's voice in the Mumbly cartoons, as Winchell had done Dick Dastradly's voice.

I suspect the failure to get Winchell to do the voice in the Mumbly cartoon is what contributed to the creation of Mumbly.

Had they used Muttley, all anyone would have asked was 'where's Dick Dastradly?'

So they had to concoct the lookalike characters.

By the 1980s, whatever was going on had been alleviated because in all the Yogi's Treasure Hunt cartoons, we have Dick Dastradly, voiced by Paul Winchell.

But the Laff-A-Lympics comic book stands as the only time I have ever seen these characters together.