Bulletman and Bulletgirl are really, really good at sky writing, but I do like the sentiment. Why them rather than Captain Marvel as the top feature this week? Well... let's just say the Big Red Cheese's strip was... problematic.
While the Native Americans in this story don't speak like they're in a bad, racist western, Golden Age comics were convinced that Native people in both America and Africa lived exactly as they did centuries ago. When Native Americans are in a story, it might as well be a western, so there's very little difference between this story's setting and the next strip over's (The Golden Arrow) which DOES take place in the Wild West. A small ad to keep reading at the end of the story has Cap in a Native headdress and that racist wampum talk, so it only gets worse. The rest of the issue has strips in "Darkest Africa", etc., so no help there.
While Fawcett is being objectionable, might as well just let Atom Blake, BOY WIZARD, punch a dog. See you next week.
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