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Mechanical mowers pushed by humans date back to 1870, with an improved version created in 1899.

WELCOME to The Better Half subreddit, and the ongoing battle of wits between handsome Harriet and pretty Stanley, a 40something suburban couple with no kids, but not needed because Stanley often takes on the child role all by himself....

As stated in the title, this is not the very first TBH comic, which I wanted to start the subreddit with, but the second, because The Des Moines Register, the original syndicator of The Better Half, failed to run the very first panel in the Monday, June 25, 1956 edition of their paper. Because of that oversight, we start off with the SECOND panel, which pretty much set the stage for what readers could expect.

Speaking of expectations, expect to see a heavy focus on panels from TBH creator Bob Barns' original run from 1956 to 1971, fan art (including AI art) and panels by subsequent cartoonists who took over TBH following the passing of Barnes late in 1970, who kept the series going until its cancellation late in 2014

If anyone has the very first TBH panel and wants to share a scan with fellow members, please do!

Enjoy, everyone!

Photographed from an unknown Sunday newspaper and spruced up with the help of Photoshop Elements as the original print job wasn't the best.

A real man gets his wife flowers and is not a sissy.

I first learned about this UK comic strip roughly 50 years ago in a British book about the history of comics, and subsequently got to see some strips in a short lived US edition of London's Daily Mirror, which was home to The Perishers, a strip about a bunch of street kids, and Andy Capp.

Up until recently, I had never seen The Perishers in any American paper, but was surprised to see the comic in scanned pages of the Minneapolis Tribune from 1970! ... The Tribune added The Perishers to its comics lineup on March 16, 1970, running it until October 31, replacing the strip with another UK import named Clive on November 2.

It should be noted here that The Minneapolis Tribune at that time also ran Andy Capp under the title Andy of England during the week, or simply Andy on Sundays.

Published a few weeks after the US enters World War I on May 24, 1917, wartime inflation sets in.

I grew up reading the Flintstones comic strip in my local paper, loving how the strip expanded Hanna Barbera's prehistoric world and gave Pebbles thought balloons so she could break the fourth wall and tell readers what's on her mind... Inn other strips, Bam Bam talks!

The strip started on October 2, 1961 and ended on August 29, 2998, drawn for most of its run by veteran animator Gene Hazelton, who created Pebbles and Bam Bam for the television series.