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...quarrel with the old-style comic like Mr. & Mrs., The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, and he seems to have a sneak ing admiration for Li'l Abner ("sexy and synthetic pastoralism" done with "manifest cleverness.") But, he says, "there seems to be nothing in the good comics which keeps readers from liking the others." He saves his sharpest slings for Superman's female counterpart, a four-year-old character named Wonder Woman, who is described by her creator as "the girl from Paradise Isle, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury." Wonder Woman...
...HIGH ROAD-Frances Grinstead -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Rove Carruthers would rather dream great deeds than do them. Aged 16 and a man by Ozark standards, he loves Jubilee, hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...
...After Li'l Abner's buxom, bucolic sweetheart in Al Capp's comic strip...
Horse Laughs. One of the liveliest books of the series is Usafi's English Grammar. Chief feature is a set of sparkling illustrations (see cut) by newspaper cartoonist Abner Dean. Before the reader gets to Chapter I he encounters a pretest for common errors that embodies horse laughs typical of the whole book...
...name of Abner Doubleday is Finn MacCool? Perhaps a first baseman Branch Rickey spotted in. Nellies Apron, Ark.? What's his batting average...