Monday PSA: Honesty is the Best Policy
July 30th, 2007
Filed under: Comics
From Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane #53 comes this PSA reminding us that “Honesty is the best policy.” It also reminds me that 43 years ago, five dollars would by three movie tickets and snacks — nowadays it wouldn’t buy a single ticket, let alone any snacks at the movie theater. Finally, the ad reminds me that Dr. Brown needs to be a lot more careful with patient information and not just share it with passing schoolboys.
Ad is usual for these DC comics PSAs, Jack Schiff wrote the script with pencils by frequent PSA collaborator Sheldon Moldoff..
July 31st, 2007 at 1:33 am
Hmmm. The artwork shows the usual typecasting, with the heavyset boy being the one who is dishonest.
I wonder if we can trace the increase of juvenile delinquency to the end of such PSA’s in comic books?
July 31st, 2007 at 7:04 am
Man, panel three’s creepy. The dark-haired kid looks like a pow and the fat kid looks… I don’t know. The tiny hand is creeping me out too much.
BJ: he’s not dishonest, he’s just hungry!
July 31st, 2007 at 7:13 am
How was Honesty the best case in this scenario? There was no payoff/reward what so ever. Cheap bastard didn’t even invite them in or anything.
July 31st, 2007 at 9:22 am
Christian, the last time the school janitor “invited me in” and made me call him “Uncle”… Well, let’s just say five bucks wouldn’t cover it.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
And why is it being the janitor a benefit?
July 31st, 2007 at 10:38 pm
It’s also a good reminder that childhood obesity, although more widespread now than it used to be, existed 40 years ago as well. Man that kid is tubby!
August 1st, 2007 at 12:50 am
Apparently after his wife was outed as a CIA agent by Scooter Libby, Joe Wilson took a more modest career path.
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
I think the idea was that like most humans, the boys didn’t feel they were doing any
harm as long as the wallet’s owner was unknown to them, but when they found out it was
the school janitor, someone they knew and therefore a *real person*, they realized they
had almost become thieves.
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