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["Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!"]
["Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!"]

["Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!"]

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1961
ClassificationsCartoon
MediumCrayon and ink
DimensionsSheet: 8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in. (20.9 x 22 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1460
[Max's Bargain Shop]
[Max's Bargain Shop]
Alan Dunn
1967
"Now look - International has a net quick of $15 per share. Its market price is $10, book is $36.65. Our net quick is $8; our book is$22, and at market we are selling for $25. So to start with we offer them one share of ours for two of theirs. That's five bucks premium. Can they turn it down? So they turn it down. Then we say, O.K., we'll buy the assets. We'll give you $1 million for your plant, which stands at $3,900,000 net. That wipes out all the water, gives them a fine tax carry-back. Then we give them 80 per cent of net inventory and accounts receivable - that's another $4 million. Another nice tax loss for them. So we pay 'em $5 million. There's nothing complicated about this except - say, where do we get the turn-around money"
"Now look - International has a net quick of $15 per share. Its market price is $10, book is $36.65. Our net quick is $8; our book is$22, and at market we are selling for $25. So to start with we offer them one share of ours for two of theirs. That's five bucks premium. Can they turn it down? So they turn it down. Then we say, O.K., we'll buy the assets. We'll give you $1 million for your plant, which stands at $3,900,000 net. That wipes out all the water, gives them a fine tax carry-back. Then we give them 80 per cent of net inventory and accounts receivable - that's another $4 million. Another nice tax loss for them. So we pay 'em $5 million. There's nothing complicated about this except - say, where do we get the turn-around money"
Alan Dunn
1954
[Sign in supermarket window: "All Merchandise Marked Down To Last Week's Prices"]
[Sign in supermarket window: "All Merchandise Marked Down To Last Week's Prices"]
Alan Dunn
1969
Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".
Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".
Alan Dunn
circa 1966
72. The Store of “Fair Prices”. With our fair prices/ We never cheat you—/ But my clerks are astute,/ And know a trick or two.
72. The Store of “Fair Prices”. With our fair prices/ We never cheat you—/ But my clerks are astute,/ And know a trick or two.
José Guadalupe Posada
1947
Dominguin Dressing for the Corrida, 1951
Dominguin Dressing for the Corrida, 1951
Todd Webb
1951
[Sign in auto show room: "You Ought to Buy Now"]
[Sign in auto show room: "You Ought to Buy Now"]
Alan Dunn
1958
Sunset at Cattawade
Sunset at Cattawade
James McBey
1923
40. High Cost of Living. Prices rise higher and higher;/ My salary no longer stretches,/ To play the market is one thing—/ Marketing, quite another.
40. High Cost of Living. Prices rise higher and higher;/ My salary no longer stretches,/ To play the market is one thing—/ Marketing, quite another.
José Guadalupe Posada
1947
"Look here! Holding the line on prices for structural steel isn't the same thing as twenty cents for cup custard."
"Look here! Holding the line on prices for structural steel isn't the same thing as twenty cents for cup custard."
Alan Dunn
circa 1966
[Prices Slashed!]
[Prices Slashed!]
Alan Dunn
1939
Sueño y Mentira de Franco
Sueño y Mentira de Franco
Pablo Picasso
1937