Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight comic strips are today consciously comic, few still appeal primarily to children. Like movies and pulp fiction, they are mostly simple narratives for the unsophisticated of all ages. First comic-strip character to find high adventure in Europe's war was the Register and Tribune Syndicate's Jane Arden girl reporter for a mythical newspaper...
...quickly seemed ridiculously simple to readers of the comic strips last week: send Superman to clean up Hitler. One reader wrote to the Philadelphia Inquirer suggesting precisely that solution...
Last word in adventure comics, Superman is rapidly becoming the No. 1 juvenile vogue in the U. S. A happy combination of Flash Gordon and Popeye the Sailor, Superman is an individual with the speed of an airplane, the strength of a locomotive, the leap of a cricket and the hide of a man of war. He was born on a distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only...
...continuity, and Joe Shuster, who draws the pictures. Shuster went to the Cleveland School of Art and Siegel just went to high school. Last year they started something called the American Authors'* League to help ambitious and unknown authors, decided to begin by helping themselves, and concentrated on comic strips. Superman, the only one they have sold, first turned up in Action Comics, a monthly, was taken up by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate last January. It now appears in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, St. Louis and many another large city. Some of them have Superman clubs...
...together in silent comedies when Mickey was billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey into the films. A good friend of Mickey and his mother, nowadays "the old man" is often invited to swim...