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What kind of GA comic do you like best?

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Yoc:
War option now added, thank DL

Drusilla lives!:
Ya know Yoc, I also forgot to mention Jungle.   Funny how things change, I've read that that genre was HUGE back in the GA days, now it's an afterthought.

Yoc:
Easily fixed DL.  :)

JVJ (RIP):

--- Quote from: Drusilla lives! on September 16, 2011, 07:08:43 PM ---Ya know Yoc, I also forgot to mention Jungle.   Funny how things change, I've read that that genre was HUGE back in the GA days, now it's an afterthought.

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Was it really "HUGE", dl?
From 1935-1941, just about every anthology title had its Tarzan rip-off, but then, except for Jumbo and Jungle from Fiction House, there weren't any other genre titles until Fox began in 1947 (?) to do their GGA stuff. Standard had a couple of Jungle Girl strips in the late '40s in Thrilling (Judy of the Jungle, etc.), Fawcett had Nyoka (which almost doesn't count) and then Atlas had Lorna and Jann for a while in the '50s. DC had Congo Bill and there were occasionally a couple of issues from smaller companies (like three issues of Avon's White Princess of the Jungle), but I think it's only in retrospect that we think of it as other than a tiny niche genre.

my 2¢

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josemas:
This observation of Jim's makes me wonder if anyone has ever done a month by month breakdown of genres being published during the 1940s and 1950s? 

Curious

Joe

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