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Patiently and learnedly De Camp disproves the Atlantis theories, except for the possible grain of truth behind Plato's original allegory. But the Atlanteans go marching on. Last week a comic-strip character, Alley Oop, who was born in Moo (Mu with dinosaurs), was exploring Atlantis by time machine...
...Killer, a Story of Syphilis (American Social Hygiene Association; $1). The author (and illustrator) was Dr. Harry A. Wilmer, a young scientist who took five degrees in eight years at the University of Minnesota. His book is a slightly bawdy blend of fact & fancy that seeks by cartoons and comic-strip dialogue to tell about the syphilis spirochete and how it works...
...Palooka, Champ (Monogram). This lowly "B" production is a highly intelligent animation of Ham Fisher's comic strip-or of what the strip was before it got "significance." In really brilliant style it strikes precisely the comic-strip attitude-the understatement of motion, the two-dimensional, parodic life. The villain of the piece (Eduardo Ciannelli) never peeks out from behind his leer; the heroine (Elyse Knox) is rich but unspoiled; the hero (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) is profoundly respectful of his mother, and as innocent as if he had never had a man-to-man talk with his father...
...Comic-strip husbands always say "Honest, I was at a lodge meeting," because Maggie, Silly Milly et al. cannot penetrate the fraternal secrecy to check up on them. Last week, more & more international politicos were joining the Knights of Yalta...
Millionaire in Chains. The Waldorf-Astoria luncheon celebrated a comic-strip milestone: McManus had started Bringing Up Father in the old New York American exactly a third of a century ago. Its durability was a monument to the public's tolerance of a stereotype endlessly repeated, and to Publisher Hearst's taste in comics. Most readers were under the impression that Jiggs had never changed in all the years they had read it. But it wasn't so: the women's dress styles in Jiggs had advanced to circa 1928, and Jiggs himself looked quite different...