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For a while in The Sixties, classic comic strip Dick Tracy tried to capitalize on the ongoing Space Race by sending its characters TO THE MOON! One character even got married to a "Moon Maid". After the moon landing, however, the moon, and most of the sci-fi elements, were dropped from the strip, and Dick Tracy went back to old-fashioned crimefighting...

... only for the strip to almost immediately stumble into a second Dork Age with its faux-Blaxploitation/"street-wise" '70s style, including Groovy Grove, a "cool" sideshow freak with a body literally shaped like a corkscrew. (His body was a groove, see?)

For Better or For Worse is widely considered to have ended on one of these. Then restarted on another.

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-* For a while in [[The Sixties]], classic comic strip ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' tried to capitalize on the ongoing [[The Space Race|Space Race]] by sending its characters [[Recycled in Space|TO THE MOON!]] One character even got married to a "Moon Maid". After the moon landing, however, the moon, and most of the sci-fi elements, were dropped from the strip, and Dick Tracy went back to old-fashioned crimefighting...<br /><br />... only for the strip to almost immediately stumble into a ''second'' Dork Age with its faux-[[Blaxploitation]]/"[[Jive Turkey|street-wise]]" '70s style, including Groovy Grove, a [[Totally Radical|"cool"]] sideshow freak with a body literally shaped like a corkscrew. (His body was a ''groove'', [[Don't Explain the Joke|see]]?)
+* For a while in [[The Sixties]], classic comic strip ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' tried to capitalize on the ongoing [[The Space Race|Space Race]] by sending its characters [[Recycled in Space|TO THE MOON!]] One character even got married to a "Moon Maid". After the moon landing, however, the moon, and most of the sci-fi elements, were dropped from the strip, and Dick Tracy went back to old-fashioned crimefighting...
+:... only for the strip to almost immediately stumble into a ''second'' Dork Age with its faux-[[Blaxploitation]]/"[[Jive Turkey|street-wise]]" '70s style, including Groovy Grove, a [[Totally Radical|"cool"]] sideshow freak with a body literally shaped like a corkscrew. (His body was a ''groove'', [[Don't Explain the Joke|see]]?)
 * ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' is widely considered to have ended on one of these. Then restarted on another.