Good Time Guy was a humorous syndicated comic strip

Comic strip

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 distributed by Metropolitan Newspaper Service from 1927 to 1929.

It was begun by prolific screenwriter

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 Bill Conselman under the pen name

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 of Frank Smiley, and well-established artist Mel Cummin

Mel Cummin

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. Cummin was succeeded the following year by Dick Huemer (1928–29), who was in turn followed by Fred Fox (1929).

Characters and story

Ron Goulart

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wrote of Good Time Guy in his book The Funnies:

This one was about a hefty, freckle-faced small town young man, a 'well-meaning bumpkin,' with 'a heart as big as a pumpkin, only softer.' Guy had two big ambitions: 'To see everyone has a good time and to give uke lessons in Hawaii.' Guy Green lived with his widowed mother in Cornhay City and was too shy to pursue pretty, blond, Mary Laffer, even though 'she has eyes only for Guy-- and what eyes!

Conselman's script was dense with "puns and complicated word-play". There was a strong element of serendipity in the strip, with Green's naive missteps leading unexpectedly into good fortune.