A lot of people on the web today are posting their favorite B.C. and Wizard of Id gags in honor of Johnny Hart. Here's mine and it wasn't in a strip. It was the ever-changing title of one of his many paperback collections. In 1975, Fawcett Books brought out Life is a Seventy-Five Cent Paperback.
A few years later when it was reprinted, the series had gone up to 95 cents per book so they changed the title to Life is a Ninety-Five Cent Paperback and in tiny text at the bottom of the cover, it said "Formerly titled Life is a Seventy-Five Cent Paperback."
A year or three after that, the books were up to a buck and a quarter each so when they reissued this same volume, it was Life is a Dollar Twenty-Five Cent Paperback and the text at the bottom said, "Formerly titled Life is a Seventy-Five Cent Paperback and Life is a Ninety-Five Cent Paperback."
That was the last one but you just know that if the paperbacks had kept going, we'd eventually have seen Life is a Nine Dollar Paperback and at the bottom, it would have said, "Formerly titled Life is a Seventy-Five Cent Paperback and Life is a Ninety-Five Cent Paperback and Life is a Dollar Twenty-Five Cent Paperback and Life is a Two Dollar Paperback and Life is a Two and a Half Dollar Paperback and Life is a Two Dollar and Seventy-Five Cent Paperback and Life is a Three Dollar and a Twenty Cent Paperback and Life is a Four Dollar Paperback and Life is a Four Dollar and Thirty-Five Cent Paperback and Life is a Five Dollar and Fifty Cent Paperback and Life is a Six Dollar Paperback and Life is a Seven Dollar Paperback and Life is an Eight Dollar and No Cent Paperback and Life is an Eight Dollar and Sixty Cent Paperback."
You also know that he planned it that way. Notice how he left plenty of space in that word balloon.
He also did this with the British edition. Somewhere here, I have a copy of Life is a Fifty Pence Paperback. Funny man, that Johnny Hart…especially when he wasn't telling my people that we'd burn in Hell for all eternity. Although come to think of it, that's not a bad gag, either.