Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for June 04, 2020

Not that it’s any better these days, Sluggo!

Ripped from today’s headlines!!

This strip originally appeared on August 30, 1950. Earlier that month, On August 6, the NEW YORK TIMES had reported the decline in panic purchases and attributed the change to restored consumer confidence, an abundance of goods on store shelves, and “common sense”.

The opening line of the story was as follows:

A survey of the nation by THE NEW YORK TIMES disclosed yesterday that “scare buying” is on the wane. In most communities, even demands for sugar and nylons subsided fairly close to a reasonable point.

One could change “SCARE” to “PANIC” and bring this up to date, 70 years later…

She’s just window shopping. She likes to go downtown to see windows with glass in them.

Tell that to someone who’s down to their last roll of toilet paper, Sluggo.

“There is nothing new under the sun.”

Something oddly 2020 about this.

Korean war time.

Scare buying is more safer than looting or rioting.