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This juvenile does not conform to the image shown in the comic books at the time. Why would he want to borrow the car If he really possessed superhuman abilities?
To my mind this cartoon belongs more to the sixties but the desire to be different was not confined to that decade. The point of the joke is to portray nudism as ordinary, mainstream really.
Multiple absurdities are on display here. The main theme is to show ‘Western’ values being enacted in a milieu which is completely un-western. Of course, fish will be on the menu – again!
Conventions are being broken here. Mavis isn’t embarrassed and the street artist accepts her as a bona fide model. Its only the husband who conforms to type.