10. Reading Highlights Magazine In Waiting Rooms Visits to the doctor's or dentist's office often meant flipping through Highlights magazine.

Remember Highlights magazine? The one you devoured at the dentist's office, searching for hidden objects and chuckling at Goofus and Gallant?

And reading Goofus’s bad habits gave me ideas on how to annoy my parents. Lately, I’ve noticed many real-life examples of Goofus and Gallant in my world. My best example of Gallant is my husband.

Alas, instilled back then with Goofus-and-Gallant suburban innocence, I failed to discover Stamaty’s classic until its 30th-anniversary rerelease in 2003.

So I had to covertly mainline “Goofus and Gallant” at the dentist’s office, as I would later sneak the Baby-Sitters Club books. (Ranger Rick was for that alien species, animal kids.) ...

When Goofus and Gallant began their broadly-drawn moral plays in the 1950s, they were depicted as identical twins. Later on, editors for Highlights indicated the two were brothers, but not twins.

11. In an eerie echo of old Highlights magazines, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant is increasingly frustrated with the ineptitude of his new deputy, Yaakov Goofus. 12. Move over, Barbenheimer!

If Goofus lies, Gallant tells the truth.” Beck’s survey of the comic, which turned 75 this summer, examines how the lessons it teaches have shifted over the decades — which, in turn ...

Their essential nature was preordained by a higher power long ago—Goofus forever doomed to be a screwup, Gallant to be a smug little do-gooder. The higher power that created them was Garry Cleveland ...

Since 1948, Goofus and Gallant, the stars of their eponymous comic strip in Highlights for Children magazine, have taught generations of kids the dos and don’ts of how to be.