One day, I would like to write an article about the history of funny photo strips. I am especially interested in the period around 1960, when Lou Silverstein's TeeVee Jeebies in Playboy inspired Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman and Gerald Gardner do do their own version of photo's with funny balloons. There had been photo's with funny captions before that, name this unknown but long running newspaper series, Small Talk. After that I have one of the last examples of the genre, Stan Lee's short running daily political photo strip Says Who? from the late seventies. See the comments for new information.
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"Small Talk" by Syms. Strickler's E&P index says it ran 1955-1964.
A typo there says it is by Samuel R. Gornbein, should read Samuel B. Gornbein.
Looks to have originated in a 1950 book: Small Talk by Syms.
Self-syndicated?
A search for "Small Talk" + Syms on the Fulton County site
returns hundreds/thousands of hits from 1957 - 1964.
A google search for "Samuel B. Gornbein" gets some results, including:
"Social Security number 378-09-3374 was issued to
SAMUEL B GORNBEIN, who was born 18 January 1915 and,
Death Master File says, died 19 September 1987."
D.D.Degg
Thanks, unknown contributor! Can you do Jack Betts for me? Divorced in the early forties and died somewhere between 1956 and 1964.
Alex Jay
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2014/01/ink-slinger-profiles-jack-betts.html
is much better than I at this stuff.
D.D.Degg
Unfortunately he only covers the early years. It's the later years and his disappearance I am interested in. Alex is the best, I agree. But you are no slouch either.
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