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...years ago, troubled by the crime-crammed, sexy comic books his eight-year-old daughter brought home, Vicar Morris asked himself why comic-book techniques could not be used "to spread decent, healthy Christian ideals and still be amusing and entertaining." With an artist friend he prepared dummies and peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders...
Vicente Albano Pacis, aide to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, has sent us a serious, 16-page "comic-book" telling Quirino's life story. Writes Pacis...
...During the last U.S. presidential campaign, TIME mentioned that for the first time a political party made use of the comic-book medium. I filed away the information in my mind and when, by coincidence I found myself in New York during our own presidential campaign in the Philippines, I looked up the people who had put out the book you had mentioned. The enclosed is the result...
...With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
...books are a combined operation of the Office of International Information, which wrote the scripts and did the translating, and of 33-year-old M. Philip Copp, a former Manhattan art agent who underbid comic-book publishers for the $24,000 contract. To do the eight four-page, black & white biographies, Copp hired Artists Bruno Premiani and William Draut, two veterans of Wild West comics...