Comical comics
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Page 12 of 34  'Li'l Abner' (United Features Syndicate, 1936). Art/script: Al Capp. In fact, small numbers of American comics did find their way into the country, primarily through the ports, where ships would dock that used bundles of comics as ballast; and via American military bases, where comics were imported for servicemen's families. They eventually ended up, not in newsagents, but on market stalls and in dumpbins in stores like Woolworths. The comics, smaller and thicker than their British counterparts, were eagerly snapped up by schoolchildren, attracted by their full-colour production values and what could be considered as occasionally more adult content. |