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1950's comic strip known as The Funnies that has to do with domestic abuse. It was published in 1954 and the comic series was titled "There Oughta Be a Law!". The comic strip was created by Harry Shorten and Al Fagaly, it was colored after market printing. The comic is a satirical critique of the stereotypes of domestic abuse victims. (This is not meant to offend or glorify domestic abuse. It is simply a comic from the 1950's).

"There Oughta Be a Law!" was a single-panel newspaper comic strip, created by Harry Shorten and Al Fagaly, which was syndicated for four decades from 1944 to 1985. The gags illustrated minor absurdities, frustrations, hypocrisies, ironies, and misfortunes of everyday life, displayed in a single-panel or two-panel format. "There Oughta Be a Law!", or "TOBAL!", was highly derivative of Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" which had a long run over eight decades, from 1929 to 2008. "TOBAL!" was initially syndicated by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate; eventually it moved over to United Feature Syndicate.

H 11.5 in. x W 14.5 in. x D 1 in.

H 10 in x W 13 in.