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Rh Then we have the detective type, and there are five, and of those are Mr. District Attorney, Big Town, Gangbustersin the National Comics group there are three, Big Town, Gangbusters, and Mr. Dis- tirct Attorney,

Then they have the humor, which is Bob Hope and Martin and Lewis and Mutt and Jeff. They have teen-age comies such as Date With Judy, which is a strip similar to the television and radio program.

Here is Howie, Pinkie, Buzzie.

‘Chey have western comics such as Topalong Cassidy.

They have war-type comics, such as All American Men of War, and then science and space fiction, Mystery, and Space and Strange Adventure, and one which you apparently classify in your presentation here as fantasy, is Tlouse of Mystery. That is the only one which you might categorize in that group.

Mr. . Mr. Chamberlain, all of the Superman national comic magazines carry a statement about the editorial advisory board, do they not?

Mr. . That is correct.

Mr. . Showing that Dv, Lauretta Bender, Josette Frank, Dr. WW. D, Sones, Dr. 8, Tlarcourt Peppard, are members of the ad- yisory board of the Superman comics group.

Mr. . That is correct.

Mr. . They are still members?

Mr. . Yes, sit.

Mr. . What actually are their duties insofar as content of your Superman comic group publication is concerned?

Mr. . In contrast to our former witness, Mr. Freed- man, 1 am not an authority on all branches of this industry, IT am at the national distributing end of it and E do not feel that I am qualified to tell you their exact duties. T do not know.

Mr. . They act as advisers to the corporation; is that it?

Mr. . I understand that ihey do, sir, but 1 cannot tell you their exact duties.

The. The Chair wishes to interrupt counsel at the moment.

Tam happy to announce the arrival of my distinguished colleague, the Senator from Missouri, Mr. Hennings.

Senator Tfexnines. Thank you. I had te come all the way from Danville, Va., for this hearing and I am sorry to be late today.

The. All night, Counsel, you may proceed.

Mr. . Then you do not know the standards which are followed in deciding what content goes into the Superman group?

Mr. . There is a very definite and spelled-out code that is followed by our editors and our artists, in preparing the mate- rial for the Superman, D. C., or National Comic group.

Mr. . How is that code arrived at?

Mr. . It was arrived at, I believe, by this board of advisers.

Mr. . Does this board screen the comics?

Mr. . Again I am not qualified to answer that positively.