The Widow's Weed (1950)
Gordo is the kind of character who generally makes friends, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't have a enemy or two. There's the Bluto-esque Goblin , and the time-beating tot Coronado de Gama , but most of Gordo's problems ar the product of the lovestruck widow Artemisia Gonzales . Unlike most marriage-minded maidens in comic strips, the Widow isn't portrayed as desperate, homely or pathetic -- far from it , in fact! Artemisia Gonzales is portrayed as highly intelligent, aggressively ambitious, enormously successful, hip, artistic , and pursued by scads of high-quality suitors . In other words, she's too good for Gordo -- and yet, perhaps because his love is the one thing she cannot possess, she'll move heaven and earth to marry her husky hearththrob . In this torrid tale, Gordo falls for television wrestler Mitzi Miller, a college chum of local schoolmarm, Ms. Ruiz . His infatuation leads him to learn the secrets of the squared circle , in hopes of putt...