Doris distracts the Master with a flash of light reflected off of her compact mirror so Red can paste him one. I don't think we need any game mechanics for that other than a simple initiative roll. If the players won, then Doris' distraction worked.
A lot of the Mutt & Jeff's featured in All-American Comics are reprints of comics already licensed to earlier comic books, but this one in particular I don't remember. It features a goat -- that very important animal featured in so many gag strips -- but maybe takes the cake for most exaggerated abilities for a goat. This time, the goat can not only push a car with its headbutts, but it eats half the car. As crazy-powerful as goats are in joke strips, I'm thinking of pushing them up to 1+2 Hit Dice, and let them do 2-8 points of damage with a headbutt, limited to when they are combining pushing with damage (and 1-6 otherwise).
In Popsicle Pete (they wisely removed the The Adventures of part, since there's never any adventure), we learn that a plate of spaghetti could sell for a quarter at a restaurant, but for 45 cents if there is live music.
In Adventures in the Unknown, Ted and Allan continue to encounter anachronisms, as an early man is attacked by a triceratops that went extinct 67 million years earlier. Further, even though "tri" is right there in the name, the triceratops is consistently drawn with four horns. And, of course, they kill it, not caring if it is the last of its species. They also produce a medical kit/first aid kit, which they never listed having with them before. I wonder if I should be more lax on equipment lists and let players save vs. plot to have any common tool they need when they need it.
We learn that Ted's full name is Theodore Magroodle Dolliver. That doesn't make me like him any better.
With nothing but time on their hands, Ted and Alan begin a three-day trip of rafting upstream just to see where the river begins. While rafting, they are attacked by a huge river python -- and this might actually bear out, paleontology-wise, as pythons would likely have evolved by then. Now, aquatic pythons...that was probably an evolutionary dead end. Comically, when Ted is constricted, Alan keeps trying to shoot it with his pistol, regardless of how good a chance he has of hitting Ted by mistake! When Alan fishes Ted out of the water and pumps water from his lungs, we're reminded that -- back then -- people though you should lay someone on their stomach in that situation.
When Scribbly takes a week's vacation up north in the country, his mother gets fed up with his younger brother and mails the tyke to Scribbly. That might seem like child endangerment today, but apparently this was an actual thing that used to happen until 1913!
Lastly, in Gary Concord the Ultra-Man, we learn that they have "ray eye recorders" in the 23rd century, or what we would call security cameras today. "Televisors" are what they call television. An "electron racer" is a fast personal plane, but maybe that is a make and model (the 2236 Electron Racer)? Electron Racers are faster than cosmic ray craft (another type of personal plane, but a two-seater). Both look like jets. After being shot out of the sky, Gary and his sidekick Guppy encounter a land-tank (suggesting there are also sea-tanks or air-tanks) equipped with a raygun in its 180-degree top turret. When Stella Tor divebombs them after they take control of the tank, she drops poison bombs from the Electron Racer (probably not standard issue and something she loaded in herself).
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