Word: comics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that I have more concern for their mother than they do. I know I don't share Mrs. Gibbons' attitude (and the writers') towards her three juvenile delinquents, Ma Gibbons' love-blindness, the probable cause of their disrespect for the law, seems to me to be tragic rather than comic. What the hell are you laughing about, Mr. Abbott...
...addition there is some comic diving at the close of the first act which reduced the patrons present opening night to partial hysteria, and probably left a greater impression on most people than the legitimate efforts of a few minutes earlier...
...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...
...years the dime novels, pulp magazines and comic books of Street & Smith have helped U.S. males while away billions of idle hours in bunkhouses, fo'c'sles, foxholes and subways. One generation escaped into a world of high adventure and happy endings in Nick Carter and Horatio Alger tales; another ate up Supersnipe and the Shadow comics. None of their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five...
That explanation might do for the pulps, but not for the comics. Some other comic-book publishers were thriving, and total sales were still 60 million copies a month. The fact was that Street & Smith had ridden off in another direction-into the women's field. There Street & Smith's Mademoiselle, Charm and Mademoiselle's Living were selling 1,272,000 an issue among them...