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Last week the Red Cross distributed 50,000 copies of a 36-page comic-book biography of Capp, written and illustrated by himself...
...Bible stories in comic-book form are conned in some 2,000 Sunday schools...
Verbose Matt Neely was a Senator in 1940, with two years to go, when he saw his political machine was beginning to cough and fall apart. So he went home to run for Governor against a Democrat with a comic-book name: H. Guy Kump. He won. Out of State jobs went Kump followers, in went Neely men. This year, satisfied, Matt Neely ran again for Senator...
Hard-boiled comic-book publishers, eager to continue their profitable trade in murder, torture and sex, discounted True Comics' chances on two main counts: They doubted 1) whether it could arouse sufficient newsstand appeal to make money (since subscription sales of comic books account for only about1% of the total), and 2) whether thrill-sophisticated comicbook readers could be convinced that "Truth is stranger and a thousand times more interesting than fiction!" But at least, True Comics had given parents a weapon with which to fight the racketeers of childhood...