Printed 110 years ago today in the Seattle Star: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_lacamas_ver01/data/sn87093407/0020029063A/1914091701/0352.pdf
All the True that I know of: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date
Yeah, Condo was doing like 5 comics a week in this period, he’s bound to have misses, we just usually don’t pick them.
Like here’s one in which he tells his employee to do something, the employee doesn’t get it, so Everett just slugs him in the face: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/mimtptc/batch_mimtptc_ingalls_ver01/data/sn83016689/00279552039/1914091701/0925.pdf
But the employee kept pretending another grandma died, so he could go see Babe Ruth trot slowly and majestically around the bases. Wait…that guy was justified in sneaking out of work. Pick Ruth over the office. 👍
With a bonus Osgar&Adolf! I don’t get the punchline