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11 Responses to “Sluggo Saturday #75.”

• Todd says:

  October 9, 2010 at 12:46 AM

  Oh, you know Sluggo named names.

  I see that the compilation’s from 88, Mike, but do you have any idea when this was first printed?

• pell says:

  October 9, 2010 at 2:15 AM

  Yes, I’m curious about that myself. Cool if it was during the 50s and Bushmiller was lampooning what was going on at the time.

• Adam says:

  October 9, 2010 at 2:54 AM

  why does that guy have three sets of eyebrows

• rob! says:

  October 9, 2010 at 5:32 AM

  I can’t believe I’m actually offended by something I saw in a Nancy and Sluggo cartoon.

• MrJM says:

  October 9, 2010 at 8:12 AM

  I bet Sluggo is a ‘birther’ too.

  — MrJM

• Andres says:

  October 9, 2010 at 9:03 AM

  Yo Todd & Pell: Bushmiller dated that strip ‘Mar 25’ on the first panel and there’s a 1959 (Tm. Reg. U.S. & Pat Off. … etc) date on panel 3.

• Nat Gertler says:

  October 9, 2010 at 11:48 AM

  Which means we’re actually after the end of the Red Scare era, the Cincinatti Redlegs have already changed their name back. Sluggo is late to the ball as usual; perhaps if he stopped wearing clothes stolen off of a 1930s cartoon burglar, he’d be more accepted as part of the political conversation and thus be part of the times.

• Sarah says:

  October 9, 2010 at 11:22 PM

  Nancy looks traumatized by the whole thing…it’s one of the formative experiences destined to turn her into comics’ Emma Goldman.

• damanoid says:

  October 10, 2010 at 4:48 AM

  Seriously though, please keep your hammer and sickle stored in a safe, childproof place.

• Roger Green says:

  October 10, 2010 at 5:35 AM

  power to the people – john lennon

• Josh says:

  October 12, 2010 at 6:13 PM

  Oh no, Nat: HUAC was still imprisoning uncooperative witnesses for Contempt of Congress in 1959, and there were still many blacklisted entertainers and writers. The end of the Red Scare would be ’60 or ’62.