Monday, May 05, 2025

Knight Off

A woman is grabbing her son by the arm. A Little Wizard Junior Science Laboratory is put together nearby on a table and making a buzzing sound. In the background, a man is covered in lamps and a picture frame. "Fifner!" the woman demands. "Demagnetize your father immediately!"
June 1, 1966
I know we've seen the name Fifner before, but he looked different and doesn't seem smart enough to magnetize his father. Speaking of magnetized, I thought that was a carpenter's square, but I guess it's a picture frame--which seems weird. Are picture frames magnetic?

And you know all that magnetic stuff is just covered in lead.

Gladys is dressed in a princess outfit--crown and all--talking to someone in knight's armor. "Now aren't you glad you came?" she asks. "I told you it was going to be a fun night. Brutus?" Gladys opens the helmet to see no one in the suit.
1972
GoComics is celebrating 60 years of The Born Loser by posting a comic from each decade this week. The 60th anniversary is on May 10th. They made kind of a big deal about the 50th as well.

Ok. I've been reading a lot of vintage Born Loser over the last three years and the Thornapples (and those who came before them) go to a lot of costume parties. Were those really all the rage back then?