# Please help me find this short comic strip from ca.1975 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [December 16, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765 "2025-12-16T20:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/21 "2025-12-18T18:31:57Z")
Lotta comics of that era were good for a slight smile at best. More for the novelty of the idea than the humor of the execution. Hagar was an example of that genre. And I liked Hagar back then. It was really just Fred Flintstone drawn as a Viking. Good hearted but generally inept and both took his wife for granted and was in turn outsmarted and henpecked by her. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/22 "2025-12-18T18:37:24Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I just found the cartoon going through six months of _ **The Pittsburgh Press** _ archives. It appeared on Page 9 of the Saturday, 29 June 1974 edition: Wow, that’s a terrible interface on Google to view on a phone. I could _not_ figure out how to zoom in on sections of the page to actually read anything. Best I could do was download individual 256x256 pixel segments from it. I got Hagar as 3 segments and did an AI upscale on them. [![](https://i.imgur.com/C0nXPyL.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/C0nXPyL.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/23 "2025-12-18T18:43:20Z")
> [@digs](#): > > “I’ve been working on a joke about fish scales… wouldn’t work for Hi & Lois, but maybe in Hagar’s beard. Aha, I think I’ve finally aced it. Riiiiiight. Those are definitely nothing more than fish scales! > **[Don’t worry, Ed, therapists rarely euthanize their patients – The Comics...](https://joshreads.com/2023/04/dont-worry-ed-therapists-rarely-euthanize-their-patients/#hth)** > > Mary Worth, 4/5/23 ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/24 "2025-12-18T18:47:16Z")
So they WERE chunks of food! Hagar, you’re horrible! Thanks for posting it, OP was really close. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/25 "2025-12-18T18:52:04Z")
There is a “zoom in” button, but it’s hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/26 "2025-12-19T14:06:37Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > There is a “zoom in” button, but it’s hard to find.   Clicking on [a headline](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=20wdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q1kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7296%2C5870984) is easier. The interface hardly ever recognizes comic strip titles as headlines so you typically have to go for the nearest recognized one. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/27 "2025-12-19T14:19:54Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Turns out my memory was maybe 98% accurate. I don’t know if I’d consider an entire year off as 98% accurate 😃 but glad you found it! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/28 "2025-12-19T17:24:58Z")
I’m glad we got a link to The Comics Curmudgeon… but watch out! I just spent three hours catching up on that rarity: an entertaining Mary Worth storyline. > **[The Comics Curmudgeon](https://joshreads.com/)** ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/29 "2025-12-19T18:58:35Z")
I said it appeared prior to 15 June 1975 because I remember citing it that week, but not the specific day. I also knew I had seen it earlier, but not by how much. Being one year off after more than 50 is pretty damned good, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/30 "2025-12-19T19:02:10Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I said it appeared prior to 15 June 1975 because I remember citing it that week, but not the specific day. I also knew I had seen it earlier, but not by how much. When looking at history on the geological scale, you are absolutely correct that a year is “not very long before”. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/31 "2025-12-19T19:02:38Z")
The “Mermaid” shtik was used in _ **Futurama** _, too. I guess interspecies sex is not meant to be. 🙁 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/32 "2025-12-19T19:04:21Z")
Nearing the age of 71, I’m proud to have remembered it at all! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/33 "2025-12-19T19:06:26Z")
Your recollection of the actual substance of the comic was pretty spot-on too. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/34 "2025-12-19T19:10:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The “Mermaid” shtik was used in _ **Futurama** _, too. They loved each other but weren’t **in** love. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765/35 "2025-12-19T19:19:37Z")
A pretty girl complimenting you on how nice your beard looks sticks in your mind too! 🥰 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-this-short-comic-strip-from-ca-1975/1025765.md?page=1)