{"id":4599,"date":"2025-06-01T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:44:19","slug":"notes-june-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"NOTES – JUNE 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letters to the Editor<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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I rag on Novelty Press and their horrible and possibly fictional readership every chance I get, but I think I need to start presenting the letters they print in their comics so that I have some evidence to back up my grumbling. Here’s Clarence Pool of Seattle Washington advocating for the nice sensible adventures of an Army Air Force cadet who manages to foil a Fifth Column plot ever week over the exploits of a magic robot. (Target Comics v1 011, 1940)<\/p>\n

Skeletons with Jobs<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Driver is a job, certainly. Onto the pile<\/a>! (The Funnies 047, 1940) <\/p>\n

Honours<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Mickey Kelly, sidekick to swashbuckling newsreel cameraman Speed Martin, gets a medal from the French Army for foiling a spy. (The Funnies 048, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Two issues later Mickey Riley (they forgot that he already had a last name, it seems) is decorated by the British for saving Gibraltar from the Axis. (The Funnies 050, 1940)<\/p>\n

Heroes Going to Costume Parties as Themselves<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Brenda Banks attends the Grand Costume Ball as Lady Luck, in an attempt to save a life. (The Spirit Section, “The Cinderella Murder Case”, 28 July, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Mr Mystic also attends a costume party as himself in 1940, and a guy with no secret identity doing this might just be the most baffling thing I’ve read today, and this is the episode in which Mystic’s fiance is seduced by Death. (The Spirit Section, 22 December, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Cops Shooting at Fleeing Suspects<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sure, the Spirit has just confessed to a murder he did not commit for complicated reasons, but forgive me if I don’t agree with Mayor Aldrich here that that means that Commissioner Dolan has free license to shoot him in the back. (The Spirit “Eldas Thayer”, 21 July, 1940) <\/p>\n

Interior Decoration<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This child’s ducky bed is just barely charming and not eerie. (The Spirit Section, 1 December, 1940) <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letters to the Editor:  I rag on Novelty Press and their horrible and possibly fictional readership every chance I get, but I think I need to start presenting the letters they print in their comics so that I have some evidence to back up my grumbling. Here’s Clarence Pool of Seattle Washington advocating for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,383,353,737,226,155,772,2265,152,198,690,855,912,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5","category-cops-shoot","category-costume-party-heroes","category-decoration","category-dell","category-honours-minor-super-hero","category-lady-luck","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-notes","category-novelty-press","category-register-and-tribune-syndicate","category-skeletons-with-jobs","category-spirit","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}