I think I remember the
Dixie Dugan panel, Phil, but it won't hurt to see it again.
I can't make any sense of the dialogue in the last panel of
Looy - Looy had already taken exception to Boris' bullying, so I don't know why he says "That's different" when Boris threatens to spank the dish, unless he means that's all right with him

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Bozo is probably the most interesting of the three. For one thing, it looks like our hero managed to smack the irate girl's fanny with his carpet beater, so this is an actual spanking, sort of. Alas, the layout is not very well done. We've seen this gag done before, with
Lena Pry and
Out Our Way (see
The Comics Spanking Data Base for details), but they did it better: we really need to see the spankee bending over on one side of the rug, blissfully unaware that she's about to get a stinging swat.
Then there's the title: by 1953, Bozo the Clown had made sporadic appearances on TV and Dell was running a
Bozo comic book, the character having been created in 1946 as a combination book/record. But the character here is completely different, and I can find no entry for him in Maurice Horn's
Encyclopedia of Comics. Nor is he
Bozo Blimp, a very obscure strip that I believe dated from the late 1920's. Of course you can't copyright titles, so anyone even today could name a strip "Bozo" (although you'd have to be careful about trademark infringement). That's probably what this unknown cartoonist did here.
Did he get sued for trademark infringement? Somehow I doubt it. Perhaps his strip, with less-than-exhilarating layouts if this one was typical, simply never caught on at a time when a lot of new things were being tried in comics.
