Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that at Army PXs comic books outsell LIFE, Reader's Digest and Satevepost combined-10-to-1 [TIME...
Whoever is responsible for stocking the PX assumes lowly tastes on the part of the servicemen. I, a servicewife and a veteran of many PXs, can work myself into a huff just thinking about it. ... I'll wager nine out of ten comic books are bought in desperation. If people like to read and depend on it for relaxation, they'll read anything rather than nothing...
...remained for newly elected Cowboy Glenn Taylor, the pride of Idaho, to supply the inevitable comic relief. Gathered with his wife & children on the Capitol steps, the wide-open Senator, banjo in hand, wailed his lament. Sample verse...
...Marshall Field long ago discovered, there are other ways of fighting Colonel Robert McCormick besides broadsides from the editorial page. Last week, Chicago Sunman. Field raided Tribuneman McCormick's prize stable of comic-strip artists, and captured one of the best: Milton Caniff, whose syndicated Terry and the Pirates appears in 220 newspapers with a total circulation of almost...
...contract runs out in October 1946; 2) even then, Terry and his pals (Burma, the Dragon Lady, et al.) will stay in the Colonel's stable-because the rights to Terry belong to the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Though this arrangement is common practice in the comic-syndicate field, it has been Caniff's most compelling complaint against his present boss. When he works for Marshall Field he will own his own strip, and also get $100,000 a year or better for five years (Caniff now earns about $62,000 a year...