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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milton Caniff is a youngish (34) comic strip artist whose Terry and the Pirates is popular (23,000,000 subscribing readers in some no civilian papers) partly because it is filled with lusciously sculptured ladies who move sensuously against a background of Oriental intrigue. In the early autumn Artist Caniff started drawing in spare time a special, once-a-week, superluscious Terry for Army newspapers. Said Artist Caniff: "I beamed it to the Army, in Army lingo. The boys like it sharp and lusty...
Last October Funnypaper Artist Al Capp turned his popular Li'l Abner, published in over 600 papers and top-flight among comic strips, into a three-week slapstick parody of Margaret Mitchell's famed best-seller Gone With The Wind (he called it Gone Wif the Wind). Said Capp: "I really went to town. It was swell...
...armed, egg-bald "General Bruno" is a comic-strip character who can do with his one arm what most ordinary mortals would be proud to do with two. In the Bell Syndicate's strip, "Miss Fury" the General is frustrated by Brazilian guerrillas in his campaign to open the way for an Axis invasion. In his latest battle the Brazilians destroyed his soldiers' tanks, guns, helmets and even their belt buckles with metal-dissolving pellets, leaving the bewildered Germans unarmed and helpless under a hail of arrows...
...counterpart in mysterious General Gunther Niedenfuhr, onetime German Military Attache in Argentina, subsequently Military Attache in Brazil. About the time that General Bruno was getting his mechanized army set for battle, General Niedenfuhr was bounced back to Berlin with other Axis diplomats in South America. But, like his comic-strip colleague, the General had done some good work for his bosses while in Brazil. Last week Brazilians were beginning to learn what lay behind his ingratiating fagade...
...subscriber called the Herald Tribune to complain. Told about the strike, he asked to have the comic strip Mr. & Mrs, read to him over the phone. A Tribune man obliged...