Editing They'll Do It Every Time (section)

==Characters and story==
The gags illustrated minor absurdities, frustrations, hypocrisies, ironies and misfortunes of everyday life. These were displayed in a single-panel or two-panel format. If two panels, the left-side panel showed some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior, with the second panel revealing the truth of the situation.
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Hellish scenes were the subjects of his [[topper (comic strip)|topper]] strip, ''The Hatlo Inferno'', which ran with ''They'll Do It Every Time'' from 1953 to 1958. An occasional feature of ''They'll Do It Every Time'' was "Hatlo's History" which enabled the cartoonist to satirize memorable moments from earlier centuries.

In its early decades, a timid man named Henry Tremblechin was a recurring victim of the strip's observations. Tremblechin's bratty daughter, [[Little Iodine]], appeared so often she graduated into her own comic strip (Aug 15, 1943 – Aug 14, 1983),<ref name=Holtz/> comic book (1949–62), a 1946 movie and a 1988 animated cartoon show.