Introduction: Comic strips and American culture / David Manning White and Robert H. Abel -- From Little Nemo to Li'l Abner / Heinz Politzer -- The revolt against naturalism in the funnies / Reuel Denney -- Comics and the American image abroad / David Manning White -- The comic strip in American life: a British view / Anonymous -- Cavalcade of the funnies / Clark Kinnaird -- Our serious comics / Kenneth E. Eble -- The comics in non-art / Karl E. Fortess -- One shade of gray: the art of personal journalism complicated by clear conscience / Robert H. Abel -- The krazy kat that walks by himself / Gilbert Seldes -- Woofed with dreams / Robert Warshow -- Sunday with the American gods / Neil Bradford Olson -- Fifty million readers / Heywood Brun -- Can children corrupt our comics? / George Newton Gordon - Quo peanuts? / Martin Jezer- - Who reads the funnies - and why? / Edward J. Robinson and David Manning White -- The world of Sunday comics / Francis E. Barcus -- Male and female relations in the American Comic strip / Gerhart Saenger -- Comic strip and their adult readers / Leo Bogart -- Mental health attitudes of youth as influenced by a comic strip / Arnold M. Rose -- Discourse on humor: the comedy of Charlie Chaplin / Al Capp -- Mary Worth and the affluent society / Allen Saunders -- Pogo looks at the abominable snowman / Walt Kelly.