>book "The Dream Life" is a reference to a comic book called "John Wayne Action >Adventures" which began publication in the late 1940s and lasted for about 3 >years.Does anyone know about this? Was Wayne presented as himself, i.e., a >movie >star, or did the comics project some other sort of image for him? The comics featured stories of the type that Wayne might have starred in as movies; in other words they didn't feature John Wayne the actor/star but John Wayne the detective, cowboy, whatever. (At least based on my limited experience; the originals are a bit pricey for casual reading and have rarely if ever been reprinted.) Don's recommendation of the Overstreet guide for comics is good since it's been the main source for a couple of decades. However the recent Standard Catalog of Comic Books (published by Krause) is stronger on bibliographic information. There were a fair number of these celebrity comics up until the US market went mainly to superheroes in the 70s. Usually they featured comics (Jerry Lewis) or Western actors (Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes!) who had a fairly well-defined image. Others used people like Boris Karloff for marketing purposes but not in the stories. I think they're a part of the star system that's ready for further exploration since even comics writers tend to ignore these. Lang -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html