"Crock" - how to find a pre-1985 strip?

[Lenona]

I think the one I'm thinking of is that old, anyway. Maybe even from the 1970s. (The comic ended in 2012. Bill Rechin, the co-creator, died in 2011.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crock_(comic_strip)

So anyway, all I remember is that one man is asking another man, irritably: "where's this? Where's that?" The other says things like "I needed it for a hole in my boot." Finally, the first man says "I apologize."

Another, which I remember better, was a Sunday strip. It's been very dry, and one man says "dust off my tongue, will ya." The other man spots a rain cloud and shrieks. Everyone races to put out all the buckets there are. But the cloud only rains in one spot - far away. A man yells "who NEEDS your water, you stupid cloud!" Then comes a cry of "FIRE in the fort!"

[Brenda Sherrod]

I sort of remember that strip. I can't help with the specific comic strips but Comics Kingdom does have the original Crock strip on line.

https://comicskingdom.com/crock

And Amazon or Half Price Books should be able to find the old paperbacks.

Brenda

[Lynn McGuire]

So this is a rerun ?
https://comicskingdom.com/crock/2023-08-04

Lynn

[John W Kennedy]

Yes. “Crock” has remained in reruns on Comics Kingdom from right after
the strip ended.

--
John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

[D.D.Degg]

CROCK
by Brant Parker, Bill Rechin & Don Wilder
and Kevin Rechin & Bob Morgan
October 26, 1975 (Sunday) - May 20, 2012 (Sunday)

[Lenona]

Thank you!