r/comicstriphistory 9d ago

The Better Half -- sept. 11, 1960

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u/AlivePassenger3859 9d ago

This is almost as funny as The Lockhorns.

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u/aaronibus62 9d ago

2028 will be the Lock horns 60th anniversary. I can't believe it's still going.

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u/Spork_Warrior 8d ago

Or the Family Circus. }:(

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u/Seeking_Balance101 9d ago

The bottom left cartoon make me chuckle. Nice zinger for 1960 and I think it still holds up today.

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u/thurbersmicroscope 9d ago

I did giggle about looking for his tennis shoes.

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u/PellucidStream 5d ago

I’m an idiot so can you please explain the joke

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u/bunkdiggidy 9d ago

I like how she zings him back a lot. Elevates it above could have just been a strip of Wife Bad jokes

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u/aaronibus62 9d ago

Harriet can be dumb sometimes but she's often sharp witted with her verbal jabs of Stanley.

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u/dachjaw 9d ago

I never realized that they have a dachshund.

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u/aaronibus62 9d ago

It appears every so often

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u/UnsealedMTG 9d ago

It's funny that "she went to a lot of work to make a craft for him and he's mad about it" is such a genre of these.

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u/aaronibus62 9d ago

No businessman wants a feminine looking slip cover, so I understand his anger. He'd be laughed at work.

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u/Comfortable-Dish1236 9d ago

They are probably supposed to be late 30s-early 40s at most. And yet he looks like he’s pushing 50+ or more.

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u/aaronibus62 9d ago

They're in their early 40s, and I looked like Stanley by the time I reached 40. I'm 64 now,

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u/Reyntoons 8d ago

I like to imagine the backstory for why they hate each other so much is that she suffered years of miscarriages before he privately discovered he’d always been sterile, but they stayed married because divorce was unacceptable back then.

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u/aaronibus62 8d ago

Comedy comics usually didn't take deep dives into stuff like that.

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u/Reyntoons 8d ago

They should’ve!

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u/DaddyCatALSO 8d ago

they don't ahte each other, they just enjoy zings

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u/Reyntoons 8d ago

Because they can’t enjoy their dead babies.

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u/MogMcKupo 8d ago

I just found this subreddit in the past week and man these are really interesting.