Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such playboy feats are all very warming to the neutral U. S., where Superman is the No. 1 comic-strip character, a hero to millions of youthful muscle-worshipers; but to a country at war, like Canada, this reduction of a life-&-death struggle to the absurdity of a comic strip is no joke. Superman's irresistible strength came up against the impenetrable wall of Canadian censorship, and one day last fortnight there was no Superman in the Toronto Star...
Rene himself said, "We ought to beat them of. . . " That "If" is the same it has been all season: the boys just never seem to look as good-on the strip against real opposition as they do in practice. If they had the season might well have been very different...
...Rockford, Ill., one day last week, a ten-year-old named Jack Hill trudged along the street without looking where he was going. His nose was buried in a comic-strip magazine devoted to the exploits of Superman. He started absently across a street. A car missed him by a hair; bystanders yelled at him. Jack moseyed on regardless, smack in front of another car. In the hospital, to everyone's amazement but a Superman's, he proved to have no injuries to speak...
Scarcely more than a year ago Superman was just a comic-strip nobody from an obscure planet called Krypton. Now, as almost every kid in the U. S. (and many a grownup) well knows, Superman is THE man to have around in a 1940 pinch. He can outswim a torpedo, outfly an airplane, outdistance a streamliner train, outrun a speeding automobile, punch his way through armor plate. Also he can get down to brass tacks as Clark Kent, reporter, write superscoops for his paper...
Almost as phenomenal as his comic-strip career is Superman's vogue with U. S. youth. He appears in 77 U. S. dailies, 36 Sunday papers. With Superman its ace, the magazine Action Comics' net paid circulation has whooped since June 1938 from 130,000 to 800,000. Superman Quarterly is gobbled up at the rate of 1,300,000 copies an edition. The Superman Club has 100,000 members, including Eric & Jean LaGuardia, Spanky McFarland (Our Gang Comedies), a La Follette, a Du Pont, eleven middies from Annapolis, 16 students at Hiram (Ohio) College. In the works...