This is not the finished drawing of the cartoon as it appeared in print. It is an earlier version of the gag from my files. I sold the cartoon to King Features in November 1977, but I had to do a finished drawing. I don’t have a copy of that final drawing, nor do I have a tearsheet of the printed cartoon. All I know is that it was scheduled to be published in “Laff-A-Day” on February 10, 1978.
So if anyone happens to have a copy of it (ha ha!), I would certainly appreciate seeing it.
UPDATE: Thanks to the spectacular detective work by Captioneer Mark Schaeffer, who sent me a copy of this KFS cartoon that was published on February 10, 1978, I can now add it to my archive. Here it is. As you can see, there is no significant change in the layout of the drawing, but I shortened and revised the caption from my original sketch of the gag.
Many thanks, Mark, for sending this published cartoon and the others that you were able to find. I greatly enjoyed seeing them all, and will be adding them to the archive in the future!