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108 Mr. . After you get a Hst of all these kids and their fam- ilies and addresses, what do you do with the list?

Mr. . I get out what we call fan and addict club bulletins. The last bulletin was principally made up of names and addresses of members who had back issues they wanted to trade with other members.

Mr. . Did anybody buy thaé list [rom you and use it?

Mr. . No, sir; [ have never sold it.

Mr. . Do you know anything about this sheet called, "Are you a Red dupe?"

Mr. . Yes, sir; I wrote it.

Mr. . How has it been distributed?

Mr. . It has not been distributed. It 1s going te he the inside front cover ad on live of my comic magazines which are forth- comming,

Mr. . And it is going to be an advertisement?

Mr. . Not an advertisement. It is an editorial.

Mr. . Do other magazines have copies of this to be used for the same purpose?

Mr. . No, sir.

Mr. . You haven't made this available to the magazines as yet?

Mr. . No, sir: and I don't intend to.

Mr. . You believe the things that you say in this ad that you wrote?

Mr. . Yes, sir.

Mr. . That anybody who is anxious to destroy comics are Communists?

Mr. . I don't. believe it says that.

Mr. . The group most anxious to destroy comics are the Communists?

Mr. . True, but not anybody, just the group most anxious.

The. Are there any other questions?

Mr. . No.

Mr. . I have some questions.

The. Mr. Beaser.

Mr. . Just to settle the point which came up before, Mr. Gaines, who is it that gets the idea for this, for one of your stories, you, your editor, the artisi. the writer? Where coes it come from?

Mr. . Principally from my editors and myself.

Mr. . Not from the artists?

Mr. . No.

Mr. . He just does what he is told?

Mr. . He just followed the story and illustrates it.

Mr. . He is told what to do and how to illustrate it?

Mr. . No, our artists are superior artists. They don't have to be given detailed descriptions.

Mr. . He has to be told what it is?

Mr. . It is lettered in before he draws it.

Mr. . He knows the story pretty much, so he knows what he can fit in?

Mr. . Yes.

Mr. . You said that you had a circulation of 5 million Bible storybooks.