Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times permitted itself a genteel snicker: EGA UNDERWRITES LAUGHTER FOR GERMANS ; FINANCES COMIC AS WELL AS TRUE LOVE TALES. The story from Berlin, by Timesman Edward A. Morrow, * said that Generals Clay and Robertson had "approved" requests from Pulpsters Fawcett and Macfadden that they be guaranteed against loss in selling $87,000 a year worth of comic books, True Confessions, True Police Cases, etc., in Germany. A women's club convention in Manhattan promptly viewed the matter with shrill alarm, and the Christian Science Monitor huffed that it was an outrage...
Bravo! would seem like apt material for a neat Ferber & Kaufman blend of oil & vinegar. The play does have touches of warmth and wit, but most of it is a purely mechanical sponging of the emotions, or a frantic clutching at comic and dramatic straws. The characters are too often mere plushy stage furniture, exploited rather than explored. Only Refugee Actress Darvas (wife of famed Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar) possesses real rather than synthetic dignity and charm...
...many years, several public-spirited organizations have been trying to save American kiddies from the insidious influences of comic books, gangster movies, and radio thriller serials. The main attack has centered on the funnies and films, because radio is sexless, and therefore harder to get a generally tolerant public excited about. But the kiddy serials are nevertheless riddled with the same sort of grotesque materials that parents and teachers regard with horror in other mediums. And they are just as fascinating...
Despite the muscling-in operations of Captain Marvel and his ilk, Superman remains champion of radio fantastics. He has even reduced a comic-book rival--Batman--to a subordinate position in the Superman show. Batman is permitted to knock off a minor thug once in a while, and occasionally rescue some imperilled citizen, but he is clearly inferior to Superman. In private life--that is, when Superman becomes "mild-mannered Clark Kent," a newspaper reporter--Batman turns out to be the publisher of the newspaper, but this is just...
...supplementary texts. I.I.I, is now preparing a manual of jobs available for graduating seniors, to be followed up by talks by industrialists to plug the theme that local opportunities are "as good as any in the U.S." In the works for moppets (and their seniors): a 16-page comic book on free enterprise...