Gimme five bees for a quarter

Two four-color comic book panels. In the first, our youthful protagonist is arguing with a server at a drugstore counter or possibly ice cream shop. "Five bucks for this malted? Hey, Mac, quit your kidding!" "Wish I *were* kidding, Frank, but you wanted an egg in it and eggs are selling for $2 apiece—then there's the milk—" In the second, he's scratching his head outside a theater. "What's going on around here? Has everyone gone nuts?" The theater advertises tickets: $10 adults, $6 children.
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Two four-color comic book panels. In the first, our youthful protagonist is arguing with a server at a drugstore counter or possibly ice cream shop. "Five bucks for this malted? Hey, Mac, quit your kidding!" "Wish I *were* kidding, Frank, but you wanted an egg in it and eggs are selling for $2 apiece—then there's the milk—" In the second, he's scratching his head outside a theater. "What's going on around here? Has everyone gone nuts?" The theater advertises tickets: $10 adults, $6 children.
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From "Inflation is Your Fight!", a 1951 comic book about the terrors of inflation published by the National Association of Manufacturers. (Interestingly, they don't seem adamantly opposed to taxes, just deficit spending.)

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