For Laughing Out Loud, March 1960
Jem, July 1963
Eugene Zimmerman
Judge October 9, 1909
Reginald Marsh
New Yorker September 19, 1925
Playboy, October 1959
Playboy, December 1968
alternateworldcomics: Yeah take it to the football game, that...
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alternateworldcomics:
Yeah take it to the football game, that will be fun.
Ad that appeared in any number of Fox Publishing comics in the 1940s.
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1) We traditionally associate jingle bells with Christmas and winter, snow, and ice. Contrast of opposites.
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3) She’s with the salvation army, or similar. Soliciting donations, bar patron mistook her for a waitress, and placed his empty drink glass on her tambourine.
4) Deacon jones has erroneously attributed the cause of the children’s excitement to their returning to school. Kids are ACTUALLY excited by the opposite.
5) Could be both. If you love nature, the expansion of urban areas is a blight, as is the smokey boat traffic. But could be an actual honest stamen that it IS beautiful.
6) The hillbilly is cut off from modern society, and has invented a “flying machine” horribly out of date, just like he is with the rest of his life.
7) He’s a big jock, and “manly” man (based on his hair and pennants) She was not expecting him to act like and have “kid stuff.” That, or he’s spiking the teddy bear like you’d spike a football after a touchdown.
8) Instead of a get well card to cheer up someone who is sick, this guy’s friend is a hypochondriac, and would be happier if he were “sick” so he’s looking for a “get sick” card to cheer them.
9) “Playing doctor” is a euphemism for mildly sexual acts (with the poking and proding and looking at people in states of undress). The kids are LITERALLY playing doctor though, but the dad is SHOCKED because he’s worried he might LITERALLY be pregnant, which could happen if one were “playing doctor” in the non
10) There is a union strike. Scabs are replacement workers brought in to run the machines during the strike. The policeman is “new” (ie. A scab himself) and so not able to help the tourists. There is traditionally antagonism between union strikers and cops.
11) Statement about fashions. They DON’T actually show her. I guess the contemporary thing would be backlash against “fake” women who contour.
12) She’s attractive. They are paying to keep her around to look at her boobs.
13) Four finalists. Three matadors, one bull. Implies that the bull killed matdor #3.
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