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Funky Winkerbean by Tom Batiuk for December 31, 1972
December 30, 1972
January 01, 1973
2025.
In 11 years the United States would be flooded by the new craze from Japan, toy robots that transformed into various vehicles. The outline of the shape is vaguely reminiscent of what one such item would have looked like, enough that had they done the gag later on that’s what might have come up.