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Centauri, issue 2, Winter 1944
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Page 6 Centauri The comic Question- mature men and women. According to the Writer's Digest, the largest selling single branch of the publishing field in army camps is the comics. Can you blame an intelligent person if he swaggers off, overcome by the stench of the comics and then naturally does likewise when he runs across stf from all outward appearances the same thing? Such is a great percentage of national dislike toward "the field" and still some defend the comics that tend toward science and fantasy! Still, the newspaper or syndicated comic strip is nearly always entertaining and intelligent. Everyone reads them, and among the few good strips that thrive, and started the fad which disintegrated so horribly are: 1. Prince Valiant, by Harold R. Foster---undoubtedly the best of them all, story and drawing both. Ron Clyne and myself had the extreme pleasure of meeting Mr. Foster once, and an autographed original hangs in both of our dens. 2. Flash Gordon, by Alex Raymond---who, Foster told us, had been attempting to quit Flash for the past two years and enter the illustrating field, but is bound by a seven year contract,thus the sudden metamorphosis, sans, the large swift brush strokes. He never did do the writing, however. 3. Brick Bradford. Its diminishing popularity has caused a great number of reprints and rather loose handling. 4. Mandrake the Magician. It still flourishes----some adventures entertaining, others not so. 5. Barnaby. An amusing new strip appearing in PM and other Eastern papers. Light fantasy of a sort, but it's not very well known yet. There are others, but they're not even worthy of mention. What say we merely end by hoping that some of those comic publishers will awaken to the fact that more grown-up appeal in their mags would do themselves, as well as us, a world of good? Well, gotta go see what new scrape Dick Tracy's in now...So long.......
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Page 6 Centauri The comic Question- mature men and women. According to the Writer's Digest, the largest selling single branch of the publishing field in army camps is the comics. Can you blame an intelligent person if he swaggers off, overcome by the stench of the comics and then naturally does likewise when he runs across stf from all outward appearances the same thing? Such is a great percentage of national dislike toward "the field" and still some defend the comics that tend toward science and fantasy! Still, the newspaper or syndicated comic strip is nearly always entertaining and intelligent. Everyone reads them, and among the few good strips that thrive, and started the fad which disintegrated so horribly are: 1. Prince Valiant, by Harold R. Foster---undoubtedly the best of them all, story and drawing both. Ron Clyne and myself had the extreme pleasure of meeting Mr. Foster once, and an autographed original hangs in both of our dens. 2. Flash Gordon, by Alex Raymond---who, Foster told us, had been attempting to quit Flash for the past two years and enter the illustrating field, but is bound by a seven year contract,thus the sudden metamorphosis, sans, the large swift brush strokes. He never did do the writing, however. 3. Brick Bradford. Its diminishing popularity has caused a great number of reprints and rather loose handling. 4. Mandrake the Magician. It still flourishes----some adventures entertaining, others not so. 5. Barnaby. An amusing new strip appearing in PM and other Eastern papers. Light fantasy of a sort, but it's not very well known yet. There are others, but they're not even worthy of mention. What say we merely end by hoping that some of those comic publishers will awaken to the fact that more grown-up appeal in their mags would do themselves, as well as us, a world of good? Well, gotta go see what new scrape Dick Tracy's in now...So long.......
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