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Books designed to appeal to children, fit most parents' budgets were introduced in 1942.

The title character of a syndicated comic strip by cartoonist and Disney animator Walt Kelly. The strip originally began as a comic book. After departing Disney in 1941 to move to New York, Kelly worked on the Western Printing and Lithographing Company's line of Dellcomic books, his two main titles being Animal Comics and Our Gang. The former consisted of Uncle Remus-like stories of mischievous animals living in an unidentified swamp of the American South and their human friend, a little black boy named Bumbazine. The featured animal character at this time was Albert, a villainous alligator...

Grand Master James Gunn, 97, died December 23, 2020. Gunn was one of the field’s true polymaths, excelling as an SF author, editor, and scholar. Gunn served as President of Science Fiction Writers of America in 1971-1972 and the organization honored him with a Damon Knight Grand Master Award in 2006. He was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2015. James Edwin Gunn was born July 12, 1923 in Kansas City MO. He attended the University of Kansas, where he earned a BA in journalism and a master’s in English, though his education was interrupted by three years serving in the US Navy during WW...