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The comics

Posted on March 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 20, 1938 Wow! Here’s a "Joe Palooka" strip from 1938. All of Ham Fisher’s white characters are drawn realistically and the African American is this ghastly caricature who speaks in dialect. Seeing something like this in the daily press … Continue reading →

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