"Now they say there is water on Mars!"

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"Now they say there is water on Mars!"

Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)

Date1969

ClassificationsCartoon

Mediumcrayon ink

DimensionsObject: 10 11/16 × 11 3/4 in. (27.2 × 29.8 cm) Sheet: 10 11/16 × 11 3/4 in. (27.2 × 29.8 cm)

Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest

Object number1979.1628

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"May I remind the Committee for the Control of Outer Space that we are simply hastening the day when we'll be taking on Mars as underdeveloped."

"May I remind the Committee for the Control of Outer Space that we are simply hastening the day when we'll be taking on Mars as underdeveloped."

Alan Dunn

1960

"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

"Before pronouncing sentence, may I say my salary is $27,500 a year and my total personal assets amount to $88,726.42. The court will now proceed...."

"Before pronouncing sentence, may I say my salary is $27,500 a year and my total personal assets amount to $88,726.42. The court will now proceed...."

Alan Dunn

1969

"Now in transcribing the log, Weldon, you must stick to the official wording. We don't say, ""Fluffy white clouds in a cerulean sky."

"Now in transcribing the log, Weldon, you must stick to the official wording. We don't say, ""Fluffy white clouds in a cerulean sky."

Alan Dunn

1943

"You say 10,486 and Dummond makes it 11,104--now who am I to believe?"

"You say 10,486 and Dummond makes it 11,104--now who am I to believe?"

Alan Dunn

1942

"You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?"

"You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?"

Alan Dunn

1966

"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."

"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."

Alan Dunn

c 1965

Federico Castellón

c 1948

Federico Castellón

c 1948

Federico Castellón

c 1948

Federico Castellón

c 1948

Federico Castellón

c 1948

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