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Sloth slept with his eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...
...Alley tune) to make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals, and rescued his small daughter from Hayakawa...
Buzzy is the first enlistment in a new campaign mapped out by the National Social Welfare Assembly (representing the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Family Service Association and 55 other organizations) in cooperation with National Comics Publications, one of the largest U.S. comic-book publishers (37 magazines, 10 million circulation). Their purpose: to present "socially constructive" messages, exchange ideas on how best to make all comic books (with a monthly sale of 50 million) more acceptable to youth leaders, educators, psychiatrists and parents. Before the year is out, U.S. kids will get wholesome advice about racial tolerance, participation in community affairs...
That explanation might do for the pulps, but not for the comics. Some other comic-book publishers were thriving, and total sales were still 60 million copies a month. The fact was that Street & Smith had ridden off in another direction-into the women's field. There Street & Smith's Mademoiselle, Charm and Mademoiselle's Living were selling 1,272,000 an issue among them...
Despite the muscling-in operations of Captain Marvel and his ilk, Superman remains champion of radio fantastics. He has even reduced a comic-book rival--Batman--to a subordinate position in the Superman show. Batman is permitted to knock off a minor thug once in a while, and occasionally rescue some imperilled citizen, but he is clearly inferior to Superman. In private life--that is, when Superman becomes "mild-mannered Clark Kent," a newspaper reporter--Batman turns out to be the publisher of the newspaper, but this is just...