The Born Loser: Tarnation Man, Assert Yourself! #2 (14370)

This collection reprints a selection of newspaper comic strips from the early 1970s featuring the perpetually hapless Brutus Thornapple, known as The Born Loser. The volume includes gags centered on his struggles with self-assertion and his ongoing battles with his domineering mother-in-law, Gladys. It is part of a series of paperback collections published by Tempo Books in the late 1970s, gathering classic strips by creator John Armstrong.