Electronics-Themed Comics
October 1962 and January 1963 Radio-Electronics

October 1962 Radio-Electronics [Table of Contents] Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Electronics, published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.

Start your week our right with a few electronics-themed comics from these 1960's vintage Radio-Electronics magazines. The one on page 108 is my favorite - by far the most clever. The artist had no idea that he was drawing the world's first e-cigarette, only not in its present-day form. The page 86 comic invokes memories for just about everyone regarding some dummkopf neighbor or boob in a car with the stereo volume level cranked way up. We hope they will all someday go deaf from it, as a form of retribution. I had a neighbor one time who had a massive stereo outdoor system around his pool, and he blasted the area all weekend long during the summer. I finally got it under control after I would fire up my lawn mower and leave it sitting, running, at the edge of my yard until he finally turned it down. The guy was diagnosed with a brain tumor a couple years later and ended up moving. Now, statisticians say correlation is not causation, but you have to wonder... It took me some thinking to figure out what the humor in the page 57 comic was.

Electronics-Themed Comics

"See what I mean?"
Page 57 October 1962

"What's wrong? Haven't you ever seen a filter-tip cigarette before?"
Page 108 October 1962

January 1963 Radio-Electronics [Table of Contents] Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Electronics, published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.

"He's waiting for the man next door to turn his hi-fi on."
Page 86 January 1963

"Sure glad you showed up. There's a program in a couple minutes I don't want to miss."
Page 113 January 1963