This is the first time I’ve realised these comics are actually from the 50s and not just modern ones stylised to look like it
Pretty sure there are some modern ones floating around after someone else took up the strip, but yes, many of them are from way back.
And 1930s and 1940s. :)
They feel kinda timeless, don’t they?
Back when theater admission was the price of a single coin…
But don’t let that distort things, because money was a lot more valuable back then.
According to this https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1935?amount=1
A USD$1 in 1935 was worth about $23.15 in purchasing power today.
This site says that a quarter, $0.25, was the price of a movie ticket in 1935 https://www.davemanuel.com/whatitcost.php
Let’s say Sluggo is paying a quarter/$0.25 for admission in 1935, that would be around $5.79 today, or $4.36 depending on what metric you believe.
Let’s say Sluggo is a child, and paying child admission to a matinee. That’s currently $13.78 on AMC’s website today.
So tickets are STILL at least twice as expensive post-Reagan regardless of what metric you use? Quelle surprise…
What a strategist
