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Editorial

The Spirit of Comics

by Charles Natoli

[Popeye creator] E.C. Segar was very good in his time; but times have gotten worse, and he is even better in ours.

The Depression, dictators on the march, world war, genocide – viewed against this backdrop, the 1930s to mid 40s were more like Hesiod’s ultra-violent Age of Bronze than a time that could be an idyll while it lasted and an oasis for memory afterwards. But for the readers of comic strips, it was the very heyday of an age of gold that had begun in the 20s.

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