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Finally he was ready for the tenth and last dive. He climbed to 10,000 ft., leveled off, jammed the stick forward. How a test pilot feels in that final dive earthward "Jimmy" Collins had described in his Satevepost article...
Tucked away in the back advertising pages of Satevepost, Henry's adult humor attracted an enormous following. Fan mail deluged him. Advertisers demanded position next to him. Foreign papers reprinted him. Traveling in Germany last autumn Publisher William Randolph Hearst discovered Henry in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, promptly called for a secretary, a cablegram blank. Few hours later in Manhattan Hearst's syndicate chief, Joseph Vincent Connolly, received word: "Get Henry." He took the next train for Madison, Wis. There in a feverish half-hour between trains he signed Carl Anderson to a fat contract with King Features...
...color page was in the making. Henry was being readied for the cinema. Henry dolls were on sale. Nine publishers were clamoring for rights to reprint Henry in 10? booklets. And last week brought a crowning glory when the first Henry book appeared.*Composed of 60 examples from the Satevepost the Henry book shows the moppet at his best...
Worthy running mate to Henry is a strange little character named Philbert in Cottier's. Spotted in the back of the magazine, as Henry was in Satevepost, Philbert also has scored spectacular results since his birth a year ago, will soon make his cinema debut...
Creator of Philbert is Frank Owen, 28, an easy-going smalltown Texan who rousted about in oil fields, refineries, lumber camps, until he got a job cartooning sports and editorials on the Dallas News. He went East, free-lanced for Judge, Life, Satevepost, New York American, landed a place on Collier's two years ago to do general cartooning. Philbert came to life when Cartoonist Owen discovered he "had been drawing him all the time and didn't know it." Many of his best ideas come from his pretty young wife, Swedish-born Vera Blomquist. The Owens live...