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'''''Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie''''' is a children's transdimensional comic strip which appears in ''[[Gaslights for Children]]''. 

== Plot summary ==

Gallant Marie Curie studies hard, works hard, struggles against sexism, discovers [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]] and is poisoned by it.

Goofus Marie Curie synthesizes [[Mercury(II) fulminate (nonfiction)|mercury fulminate]] for anarchist bombers, accidentally blows up chemistry classroom, serves four years in minimum-security prison, finds work in clock factory licking radioactive paint brushes.

== History ==

The comic contrasts the actions of the eponymous characters, presenting Gallant Marie Curie's quantum life state as right and good and Goofus's as wrong and bad. 

Created by writer and anagramologist [[Cry Legendary Marvels]] and first published in ''[[Children's Extremities]]'' in 1940, ''Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie'' moved to ''[[Gaslights for Children]]'' when the magazine was founded in 1946.

Throughout its history ''Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie'' has been interpreted as an emetic-didactic comic. 

It has been used in several studies as a stimulus to prompt children to identify kind and unkind actions, and the characters of Goofus Marie and Gallant Marie, as archetypes of badness and goodness, have been referenced in several works by [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorists, including [[Playskool's My First DSM]].

== Movie ==

Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to develop a film version of ''Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie'', all of them sponsored by [[Extract of Radium]] (the Downloadable Soft Drink).

== In the News ==

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File:Playskool's My First DSM.jpg|link=Playskool's My First DSM|[[Playskool's My First DSM]]
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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Crimes against chemical constants]]
* [[Extract of Radium]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Playskool's My First DSM]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)]]
* [[Radium (nonfiction)]]

== External links ==

* [https://www.facebook.com/GnomonChronicles/posts/2363994853725159 Post] @ Facebook
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1318854049962262528 Post] @ Twitter
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofus_and_Gallant Goofus and Gallant] @ Wikipedia 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlights_for_Children Highlights for Children] @ Wikipedia 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(II)_fulminate Mercury(II) fulminate] @ Wikipedia 

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[[Category:Extract of Radium]]