Origins of the Sunday Comics by Peter Maresca for January 27, 2014

Dentist’s chair needs straps.

Did women actually wear clothes like that in everyday life?

Considering Novocaine didn’t show up for another 3 years—I’d sock the dentist, too!!! Tige was just protecting Buster!

Never knew Buster had such a hot mom.

That’s hilarious…—when did Buster Brown decide to chuck his bad boy ways and decide to shill for children’s shoes?

O_O i thought they were kissing in the first few panals….

good god…..tooth extraction on a child?the good old days weren’t all that good, were they?

Is that a boy?

Anyone recall the TV show, Bomba the Jungle Boy sponsored by Buster Brown shoes?

@ WSR: I’m wondering why the dentist didn’t administer Nitrous oxide and ether. The technology had been around since the 1860s; and, presumably, was sufficiently advanced enough that the risk would have been acceptable for the time.

Before Novacaine, cocaine was used as a local anesthetic.