This is not the finished drawing of the cartoon as it appeared in print. It is an earlier drawing from my files. I don’t have a copy of the final drawing, nor do I have a tearsheet of the printed cartoon. But I do know that King Features Syndicate had scheduled it to be published as a “Laff-A-Day” panel on November 15, 1977.
UPDATE on May 14, 2025: Thanks to the research done by Captioneer Mark Schaeffer, I now have a copy of this cartoon as it was published in 1977. Here it is:
