Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been surprised at his new adventure. In the 2½ years since the strip first appeared, Rex Morgan's concern with the problems of medical life has prompted him to take up questions that old-fashioned cartoonists and some editors might well think "had no place" on a comic page. But for its sharp and accurate commentary on medical problems, Rex Morgan, M.D. has won the admiration of medical men across the land...
...originator of Rex Morgan is a doctor himself who uses the pen name "Dal Curtis." His identity is kept a secret by Publishers Syndicate because Curtis, now 40, is practicing in an Eastern city and he fears his fellow doctors wouldn't like the idea of his comic-stripping on the side...
...Chicago Tribune, which has been campaigning against grafting policemen, also runs Comic-Strip Detective Dick Tracy. Therefore, when Tracy moved into a palatial home, Trib Reader William J. O'Neil asked an obvious question: How could Tracy afford such a fine house on a detective's pay? Wrote Reader O'Neil: "The Tribune having been a stalwart defender of 'clean government' ... we feel sure that you will launch an immediate investigation of this matter." The Tribune's only comment was an enigmatic headline over the letter: HE BUILT IT OUT OF HIS REWARDS...
Make Your Mistakes. Murrow handles the front-page news and the editorial interpretations. But Hear It Now also has oral "columns" and features. Red Barber talks on sports (Pittsburgh's General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie...
Though developed on TV, Captain Video's influence is not limited to its round-eyed televiewers. Last month Fawcett Publications put the captain between the covers of a comic book. Last week Columbia Pictures announced the filming of a 15-episode movie serial based on the captain's adventures. Says Caddigan proudly: "I guess we've arrived...