This daily Gasoline Alley strip from 1939 makes a reference to the Arabian Nights which I don’t get. I’m new to Gasoline Alley, and this is from a Facebook page which is posting them daily. All I know of the story thus far: Skeezix started working (without having been hired) at a newspaper- like an intern (like Kramer, someone said). He’s called into the office where this scene is.
I’ve started reading the old GAs, and I see now why it was so popular.
Seems to just mean “don’t tell me any stories”, as in he could have mentioned fairy tales instead of Arabian Nights.
I agree with Darren - the boss just thinks it’s all ‘made up’.
$120 a week for a half-time cub reporter in 1939?
That’s the real “Arabian Nights” story!
(The median income for a male in 1940 was $956. That’s $956 per year.)
Doesn’t it say “$7.20 a week”?
Right. $7.20 a week. Not a cub reporter (yet, idk if ever), just a gopher afaict.
Which is $374 a year. Or $7,300 adjusted for inflation.
That certainly makes more sense. In my defense, I blew the panel up on my monitor as large as it would go, still couldn’t see a decimal point, and the 7 still looked like a 1.