Male call

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Male Call was a comic strip drawn by Milton Caniff for free for soldiers' newspapers during World War II . It appeared weekly from 1943 to 1946.

history

During the Second World War , Caniff first drew the series Burma , which was an offshoot of Terry and the Pirates , for US soldiers' newspapers from 1942 onwards, parallel to Terry and the Pirates . Since the New York News Syndicate, which sold Terry and the Pirates , did not agree with this offshoot, Caniff ended Burma and created the series Male Call , which, like Burma, appeared exclusively in soldiers' newspapers and for which he waived his fee. To distinguish the two characters from each other, in contrast to the blonde Burma, in Terry and the Pirates the girlfriend of Terry's companion Pat Ryan, Miss Lace, the heroine of Male Call , black-haired and the actress Rita Hayworth was modeled after. Male Call was first published on January 24, 1943.

Male Call appeared in approximately 2,000 soldier newspapers and was discontinued after the last strip on March 3, 1946. Bare bosom was never shown during the release period. While working on Male Call , Caniff was temporarily supported by Ray Bailey and Frank Engli.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Sex in comics . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-548-36518-3 , p. 143.
  2. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: 50 Classic Comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 75.
  3. ↑ Tim Pilcher: Erotic Comics. The best of two centuries . Knesebeck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86873-190-3 , p. 48.
  4. ↑ Harald Havas: Comic Worlds. History and structure of the ninth art . Edition Comic Forum 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 218.
  5. ↑ Ray Bailey on lambiek.net (English), accessed on September 21, 2015
  6. ↑ Frank Engli on lambiek.net (English), accessed on September 21, 2015