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1. 5 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Some years ago, when Walt’s wife Phyllis Blossom died, it came out that she was the sister of Skeezix’s birth mother, the opera singer Madame Octave. So Skeezix, who always called his adoptive parents Uncle and Aunt, turned out to be an actual nephew.

2. 24 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   And a young Willie Loman sends in his order form …

3. 27 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Schroder, introduced as a toddler, is growing up fast.

4. about 1 month ago on Cleats

   I may have spoiled — slightly — the SECOND movie, which replaced Sellers with Ron Moody and Margaret Rutherford (and simply didn’t mention Sellers’s third character).

5. about 1 month ago on Cleats

   Declaring war is just the setup.

6. about 1 month ago on Cleats

   Reference to the book (and later movie) “The Mouse That Roared”, 1950s tale of a ridiculously tiny country that declares war on the United States with the intent of losing and being showered with foreign aid. Sequels had the Grand Fenwickians embarrassing America and Russia by getting to the moon first, and accidentally disrupting the world economy while trying to dispose of an inconvenient influx of cash.

7. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   Zipper has stumbled onto the basic principle of AI.

8. 2 months ago on Cleats

   Flashback to commercials for that chapstick thing that was supposed to cure headaches. Wonder where the people who made it are now?

9. 2 months ago on Annie

   Brass Bancroft of the Secret Service was played by young Ronald Reagan in four 1940s B movies (available from Warner Archive). But the fellow in the last panel looks more like Jack Holt, whose career lasted from silents to television (and is one of the stars caricatured in the cartoon “Mickey’s Polo Game”).

10. 3 months ago on Nancy Classics

    Wait — Wasn’t Rollo the normal-looking rich kid?