The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

It's for the best, kid. Who wants to go thru life as "Fanny Foote?"

We have memes in 1945 too.

Ohhhh, Measles. You'll answer to the OPA for this!

Poor Helen. Never pledge your soul to a job like that.

And once again in his quiet way, Frank King expands the boundaries of what the comics can show...

"Hmph," hmphs Miss Kaplan. "Too obvious," agrees Mozelewski.

Vintage Expressions You Don't Hear Anymore...

It's the way she wags the blackjack that really makes the scene.

He tripped over a chair, all right?

Hu Shee would very much like to see Lt. Charles eaten by the nearest tiger, and I'm in favor of that too.

 

[Fading Fast]

T'em people could get awful -- um -- picky.

God Luv ya, Alice.

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Gale Storm, with the exception of Veronica Lake, could be the best made-up movie-star name ever. Ms. Storm was born Josephine Cottle, which to my ear, isn't a bad 1940s Hollywood name either.

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We had an escaped convict loose in the neighborhood when I was about Junior's age, and my mother locked my sister and me in the house to prevent us from being taken hostage. So we never got to see any posses or any of that other interesting junk...

At least she worried. My Dad's response would have been to look up from the paper and say, "stay closer to the house today," followed by his head looking back down as he turned the page.

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It's for the best, kid. Who wants to go thru life as "Fanny Foote?"

No kidding, tough tag. I'm guessing that Mr. Wallace Turner Foote would be interested in those beach volleyball magazines of Joe's doppelgänger.

And we have a new entry in the Page Four top-ten name list: Jetske De Balbian Vester.

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It's the way she wags the blackjack that really makes the scene.

This is crazy stuff for a comic strip. You could easily see kids (and me) having nightmares from this storyline.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I was terrified of "Little Orphan Annie" as a kid, especially when Punjab was around. Something about the way it looked just gave me the willies. Revisiting it now, I can see why. Harold Gray was a strange man who created a uniquely strange world.