How many characters of the early war years were in the armed services, and when the enemy struck the home front, dropped their uniforms for a (usually) colorful, masked character? Twilight, in that way, is not very original, but his parrot, named “Snoopy,” is colorful, at least.
Artist John Cassone did his usual superb job on the drawing. From Clue Comics #3 (1943).
“We'll kill him later! Let's leave him here for now, while we go to room 453 on the fourth floor of the Badgett Building at north-west corner of East Maple Street and Washington Boulevard!”
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I think that it would be fun to write a story set during World War II in which the villain lured children to bring precious comic books to his scrap-paper drives.
Daniel, "when you're through with his comic send it to a soldier" was a sign I once saw. However, I don't remember if the line said comic books or if it actually said, "paperback book." I just remembered it—in that tricky way memory is—as "comic books." (My future wife sent me a Batman comic book when I was in the Army, so perhaps that figured in.) I think a lot of comic books went to scrap, maybe even the bulk of them. It was people who kept them around to re-read, or put in an old trunk in the attic to save, who are the reason old comics still exist. But they were probably seen by most people as something to read and then throw away.
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