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Our Army at War #166, April 1966. This is a revamped and expanded version of a post I originally wrote in 2010.  Are you ready to compare your degrees of tolerance towards cabbages, foreigners and pulp fiction?  Given when this was published (early February 1966), I'd be curious to see how the like/dislike portion would have been filled in areas at the heart of the civil rights movement—what would a kid in New York City's response have been like compared to one from Alabama? This quiz to test your levels of prejudice was one of a long-running series of public service announcements from the National Social Welfare Assembly that were published in various DC comics between 1949 and 1967.  Action Comics #251, April 1959. This ad, which originally ran in 1959, was written by editor Jack Schiff (who championed fillers like this to prove comics could be a constructive influence on 1950s youth) and drawn by Bernard Baily (the original artist of  the Spectre , a hero ...

A meeting of titans, both facing crossroads in their lengthy careers. Jerry Lewis's movie career petered out as the 1970s dawned. Apart from the infamously unreleased concentration camp drama The Day The Clown Cried (1972), Lewis did not star in any movies for a decade between Which Way to the Front? (1970) and Hardly Working (1980). This, along with declining sales of humour comics in general, may have played a part in the end of his 20-year run as a comic book headliner in 1971. The latter part of the run played Jerry off against his nephew Renfrew, with the occasional cameo from DC Comics' stable of superheroes. As for Jerry's co-star, Wonder Woman was in the middle of her "Emma Peel" era . Changes to the character in 1968 eliminated her powers, costume and romantic interest. Out with invisible planes, star-spangled shorts and Steve Trevor , in with butt-kicking, pseudo-trendy outfits and a midget retainer named I Ching . Any boost from these changes f...