Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 09, 2021

We get Ceve Stomisar.

I thought black widows weren’t meant for stomping on.

May the Lord be with you.

This will probably be tomorrow’s RBION comic.

https://www.gocomics.com/ripleysbelieveitornot/2018/04/07?ct=v&cti=1964646

looks like a three-year-old rerun

Why did they want to make the rabbits mad?

Ripley should put trump’s picture up there, he’s is the greatest con artist of all time! Lies, cheats and steals and gets away with it! so far that is. If NY and the feds win a few of the over 50 cases pending against him hopefully he’ll be a con artist in an orange jump suit. Can’t wait till he starts coning his fellow inmates! HA!

Don’t forget to order your Abraham Lincoln Tribute medallion— made of pure copper!— for just $14.99! These medallions can be difficult to distinguish from pennies, but— believe me!— they ARE different! They’re much more expensive!

That’s not a con, that’s marketing. If Steve was a criminal, what can we say about shopping TV? What about all those ads on Facebook and all around the Internet? The “ultimate” glasses? The “safest” backpack? The “wonderful” hearing aid? The “cure” for tinnitus? They’re all cons :D

I thought this same strip ran a few days ago, but browsing back I can’t find it

As for Steve Comisar, you could rightfully quote two time-honored adages, “There’s a sucker born every minute…” and “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is…”

My old buddy, a WWII vet, was a gunsmith who built rifles in his backyard shop. He kept a spider in the shop for replacing crosshairs. He replaced my missing crosshairs on the scope of my .303 Enfield.

Back then even spiders pitched in on the “War Effort”.

Quality people today.

Wake up Eromlig! ;o}

Drop for drop the venom from a black widow is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.

I see a sitcom based on the ghostly Uber driver! “Topper” for the 21st century.

Steve Comisar looks like the dude from Brooklyn 99

huh…how bout that and whaddya know?

And we honor the memory of those departed reticle makers today…

The ghostly Uber driver profiles were probably still not nearly as scary as the characters out wandering the streets, so I would still take my chances with the Uber driver! (Of course, a scamming Uber driver is probably not ideal, either, hmm…)

The true con artists are the ones selling “air guitars” and the strings that go with them.

Black widow silk is very strong. If you tear a web, you can HEAR it rip. That is very nervous-making when you hear it in the dark!