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With a lot of these you'll need to try to take yourself back to the period in order to appreciate the humor. For example, the first comic is about a lad in a soda shop who had no money to buy a delicious ice-cream soda, hence trying to hang on to his fragile dignity. :S

If you remember Our Gang / The Little Rascals, this is a perfect Spanky situation.

As for the last comic, uh.......

"Sparky" is Charles Schulz, of course, and these are his pre-Peanuts work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Folks

These come from the superb, incredible Fantagraphics collection:
https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/peanuts

As a lifelong Peanuts reader, I was absolutely tickled to see Schulz handling adult situations like this. No 'whomp-whomp' trombone sound from the cartoons, or offsite adults regularly alluded to in the 50's-60's (etc) comics, just ALL ADULTS.

Like, whoa...

And... of course this one ("Woman Boss") was not very nice, altho containing of some humor, perhaps. But really, that could be said about loads of his style, so what am I bitching about, anyway?

Back to the point-- "Hagemeyer" was a test by Schulz in the mid-50's to branch to a different style. There are, if I understand correctly, seven total strips, none of them published. I don't know the intended order whatsoever, but this is my best-effort to post this one in decent quality.

In terms of other strips Schulz did, check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Only_a_Game_(comic_strip)

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The first phase of Lucy's angerness from the strip

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Charlie Brown stands in the lane smiling as Violet fiddles with the camera and says, "Smile!"

He says, "Well why didn't you shoot?! Why didn't you shoot while I was..."

He pauses, surprised, as she clicks the camera

He concludes, "....Smiling?"

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"Lucy and Patty are playing tennis."

dialogue-text,"Patty: Hit it Lucy! Hit it!

Patty: Well, Good Grief! Why did't you hit it?! You didn't even try!

Lucy: I did too!

Lucy: But I couldn't lift the racket!"

emotion-body-position,"standing, facing right, holding, trying, sweating, struggle, heavy, arms out, mouth open, looking left, mad, upset, angry, tongue out "

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