Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be less than modest if I did not tell you that a lion's share of Rex Morgan's success [TIME, Jan. 25] is due to the contribution of my two artist associates, Marvin Bradley and Frank Edgington . . . Years ago comic strips were written and drawn by one man. The modern fiction strips, like Rex Morgan, M.D., are a collaboration between artists and writers...
Three cheers for Dr. Dallis! At last a deadly, disastrous weapon has been placed in the hands of an educator . . . Perhaps some day comic strips and comic books will once again furnish our children and us with wholesome entertainment and educate us besides...
...point, standing flat on his feet, wiggles so disconcertingly that an opponent stumbles and almost falls down. Best shot: Haynes, after dribbling right around the entire opposing five while his own teammates doze on the floor, passes to the reclining Tatum, who looks up superciliously from a comic book he is reading, picks the ball out of the air with one hand and flips it into the basket...
...fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling ru mors. The happy-go-lucky are whoring and boozing in a last, sordid spree; the eccentrics are staging a comic opera and disguising themselves from death by dressing up as Pierrots, Harlequins, Columbines, clowns. One man is getting by (he hopes) insisting that a cholera epidemic does not exist. Most are being destroyed by their own suspicions, e.g., when Angelo thinks up a plan to escape quarantine, half of them reject...
Recently, through his syndicate, Dallis got a letter of protest from a former attendant at the Carville, La. leprosarium. Rex, it seemed, had chided one of his comic-strip friends for treating his girl "like a leper." Result: after Morgan puts Landros behind bars, he will tackle the subject of leprosy, or, as Carville prefers to call it, Hansen's disease...