Red and Rover by Brian Basset for December 15, 2022

Ummm, I know this is supposed to take place in the 60s, but as a kid in the 70s that was my weekly allowance. So I know how he feels!

That is what i got for losing a tooth. Now the going rate is $5. What?

First it was Lincoln, then Jefferson, and FDR. Now he’s up to Washington. Progress for Red.

Says the dog without a new quarter.

Today is my fifty-sixth birthday. I may have been born in the time when this nostalgic strip is set or shortly before it. The earliest dating for a strip that I know is 1967 and the latest dating for a strip that I know is 1975. Brian Basset was born in November 1958 so he turned nine in November 1967 and seventeen in November 1975. Maybe Red was a young-looking sixteen year old in the strip set in 1975.

Now go to the local convenience store and buy a comic book and candy, Red!

Take the money and run!

It should have been a quarter AND 2 milky bones.

Back in the 60’s that was at least two bottles of soda pop plus deposit.

My older brother wouldn’t offer me a quarter; he’d offer me a chance to live. LOL

Only a lousy quarter rovers right should’ve said at least a half dollor

Money talks, no matter the era…

Red, you should have held out for a Franklin at least or a new Kennedy.

Hey, for a quarter my brother and I could walk to the A&W to get a root beer float.

At least hold out for a dollar

Oh, Oh… Mark must be home from college. Hmmm…seems very entitled, too.

Its time for American Bandstand (with America’s oldest teenager – Dick Clark) dah de dah de de – Gotta good beat easy to dance to.

I always thought big brothers only had to rely on size disparity to get their way

It’s all about the Benjamins.

Go back every 15 minutes and change the channel for more bribe money, and use Rover as your enforcer. Yip yip yip yip yip

Whoa, if those are bell bottoms on big bro we’re now in the late sixties, seventies if they’re flares.

should have held out for the Washington dollar

I believe this strip is set in the ’60s. A quarter went a long way for a kid back then!

I remember when Sea-Tac Airport had black and white, coin-operated antenna TVs. A quarter might have been expensive for that back then.

Okay Shaggy….

A quarter ain’t what it used to be.

I yearn for the time that .25 cents was a lot of money to a kid.

Let each of them have his own tv, the hell with family values!

A QUARTER??? This isn’t 1955!