Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Features' Editor Ward Greene to Hearst: "There is another way to do it, which is somewhat fantastic, but which I submit for your consideration. That is to devise a new comic ... a 'dream' idea revolving around a boy we might call Dick...
Hearst to King Features' Syndicate President J. D. Gortatowsky, Dec. 28, 1945: "I have had numerous suggestions for incorporating some American history of a vivid kind in the adventure strips of the comic section. The difficulty is to find something that will sufficiently interest the kids. . . . Perhaps a title, Trained by Fate, would be general enough. Take Paul Revere and show him as a boy making as much of his boyhood life as possible, and culminate, of course, with his ride...
Greene to Hearst, enclosing samples: "We employed the dream device, building the comic around a small...
Greene to Hearst: "We do not have to show the dream at the beginning and end of every page. ... If we simply call the comic something like Dreamer Dick, we would have more freedom. . . . Some device other than the dream might be used. . . . A simple method would be to have him curl up with a history book. . . ." Hearst to Greene: "If we find [the first series] is not a success, of course we can brief it, but if it is a success it should be a long series...
Hearst to Greene: "In January, I am told, we are going to 16 pages regularly on Puck, the Comic Weekly. That would be a good time to introduce the Columbus series, don't you think...