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...years every time that one of Willard's comic strip characters referred to Moon Mullins as a "banjo-eyed bum," I have agreed with them that that is just what Mr. Mullins is. But I could never figure it out. Your issue of May 23 says, inter alia, "banjo-eyed Norman Klein." Do Klein's eyes look like banjos, or does Mr. Klein look like Moon Mullins? And another thing, that expression is the only one that angers our Mr. Mullins; a sort of "when you say that, smile" business. Are you not taking considerable chances that...
When Reporter Klein worked for the Chicago Tribune his wife nicknamed him "Banjo-eyes" because his round eyes would frequently bug with astonishment like those of Moon ("Banjo-Eyes'') Mullins, hard-boiled Tribune comic strip character...
...Hearst venture was a decided success. Other big publishers regarded it with envy. The New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Philadelphia Inquirer began offering comics space individually, but Hearst had no large scale competition until recently when two new organizations sprang up. One of these, known as Comic Section Advertising Corp. was formed last month to sell advertising in the comics of 32 newspapers (total circulation 1,100,000), biggest of which is the Detroit Free Press. The other was announced last week as the National Newspaper Group. It represents eleven large dailies of 5,200,000 circulation...
Like Hearst Comics, National Newspaper Group will place one piece of advertising in all papers of its list alike. Comic Section Advertising Corp. will offer space in smaller groups from its list...
While all copy is arranged as a page of cartoons, none of it is very comic. Some of it is not intended to be funny, but "adventurous"-stories about the girl who escapes the curse of perspiration odor; the boy who gets the Job because he has fed upon muscle-building cereals...