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"Professor Lucifer Butts" Comic Strip

Most of Goldberg’s legacy is defined by his humor — most prevalently the complex machines he designed to do such simple tasks as brushing teeth or taking photos. Those machines were featured in a Sunday Funnies comic strip that ran from 1914 to 1964, in which Professor Lucifer Butts presents and explains his inventions.

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