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Disregarding cowboy and private detective categories, kiddy programs split up roughly into two main groups: the superman variety, where the more imaginative episodes display a complete absence of reality; the non-super but decidedly All-American type, ranging from Jack Armstrong to Spy King, with plots that are basically conceivable...
Shaw's novel has three interweaving plots. Christian Diestl is an Austrian would-be superman who tolerates his Nazi party comrades since they are useful for world conquest; Michael Whitacre is a Broadway character worried about the sordid emptiness of his life; Noah Ackerman is a young Jewish boy confused by modern life but determined to burst through to personal fulfillment...
...voluntary association was already trying to clean up the 60-million-circulation comic-book field (TIME, July 12). In full-page magazine ads, National Comics Publications Inc. (Superman, etc.) was plugging the better comics as " a major moral force ... a highly salutary recreation...
Socialist Superman. It is impossible to outline the story of the whole series (or even of a single volume) without making it seem ridiculous. The books have to do with the adventures of a Socialist hero named Lanny Budd, the illegitimate son of a Connecticut arms manufacturer, born in Paris and educated in Europe, wealthy, handsome, courageous, sensitive, gifted and a true friend of the workingman...
...Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...