Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Superman got a high priority rating last week: the Navy Department ruled that Superman comic books should be included among essential supplies destined for the Marine garrison at Midway Islands. For the tough Marines, as for all U.S. Armed Forces, the Man of Steel is still super-favorite reading...
Meanwhile, three Superman comic books have a circulation of about 1,530,000 monthly, with an estimated readership of about 12,000,000. Daily and Sunday newspaper strips (in 285 papers) add about 25,000,000 readers. Superman radio programs (85 stations) are tops for moppets. Superman movies show in the majority of some 17,000 movie houses...
Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...
...most of the show is just good everyday stuff: a comic or two, a short sports summary, some popular and semi-classical music, a novelty number here, a Hollywood star there. No one draws pay; no one rehearses. The procedure is to conscript one of the big weekly commercials immediately after it goes off the air, build a new show with added acts and performers, transcribe it, and send the wax discs to the short-wave stations for the Sunday broadcast...
Last week's Command Performance put the whole Fred Allen troupe on the air, plus Songstress Gladys Swarthout, Sportswriter John Kieran, Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, Comic Henny Youngman. Mr. Kieran talked about sports and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The band played Deep in the Heart of Texas for some homesick Marines in the Caribbean...