CSotD: February 23, 1966
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I'm not feeling blabby today, so here are some strips from a half century ago. I've cleaned them up a bit but, of course, there are limits to what you can do. There are also limits to what you can figure out about a strip when you drop in on a random date for a single issue, but you knew that.
We'll start with a bit of historic trivia: Snoopy had only been flying his Sopwith Camel for about four months when this strip ran. The others, until the last two, are in random order:
(This next strip looks like Rip Kirby, but it's Ben Casey. I've seen other iterations in which the main character looked like Vince Edwards, star of the TV show. Perhaps this is a different character in the strip and ol' Vince is at the hospital running over symbols with Dr. Gunga Din. You can see a strip with Vince here at the Wikipedia entry for artist Neal Adams, who had better things to do than this.)
(For those accustomed to automatic transmissions, the Bugs Bunny joke is that Elmer thinks he's only being asked to push Bugs far enough to pop the clutch and start a dead battery. And while we're on the topic of cars, here's the car of the future. Interesting to see what they actually did end up putting into production.)
(Pretty modern kitchen setting for Bedrock.)
(Yes, people sent cash through the mail.)
(Hadn't thought of this one in years. I think she popped up in a kids' magazine, but can't remember which.)
(Ed Dodd died recently. I'd forgotten how detailed his dailies were back in the Good Old Days.)
Pretty good Ripley knock-off
(If I knew the Born Loser was ever this hip, I'd forgotten. Huge format change!)
(Lady Bird Johnson was pushing highway beautification at the time.
Hard to believe we didn't fence off eyesores until then.)
And now, a bit of Canadian Content:
Because they earned it, for running stuff like this, which we didn't:
Sure beats watching "Juliette."
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