Sunday, December 22, 2019

I'll Be At The Barracks For Christmas

Sunday Repeat Offender day.

I think I have the actual dailies upstairs, but finding them in an online paper put together six a week, saves too much time. Here are the three months leading up to Christmas 1953. Beetle had just joined the army. For some reason Mort Walker never did a lot of Christmas gags with Beetle Bailey. The first year he was in the army, he did not even go hime.

3 comments:

joecab said...

I'm not sure how much they show him nowadays, but this includes the introduction of longtime character Cosmo, the guy from NY with urbanite tastes.

EG-Markus said...

Nothing to do with this particular post but... I recall a BB daily panel from perhaps the early 80s where Cookie was preparing a menu. The thought balloon reads, "Now what haven't I had in a long time?" He then glances up at a pin-up calendar on the wall. In the final panel he looks out to the reader and says, "Besides that." I was surprised they got away with it. I've never been able to relocate that strip. Would you have a copy of it and if so could you post it? The thing was absolutely priceless.

Ger Apeldoorn said...

EG, I have very little of the eighties. It sure sound like something that would not pass the censor. specially when they could sell these off jokes to Scnadinavia.