Between his long books like " The Public Burning " and " John's Wife, " which take him upward of eight years, he zips through breezier novels like " Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears, " which reimagined Richard Nixon as an all-American football hero.
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New long-running series began, " Gloomy Gus the Homeless Ghost " in # 59 ( Dec . 1946 ), Bill Woggon's " Katy Keene The Pin-Up Queen " a model whose stories were filled with costumes designed by readers ( who were given namechecks in the issue their designs appeared in ) replaced " Suzie ", and Li'l Jinx arrived in # 62 ( July 1947 ), replacing Black Hood who had made two final appearances in # 59 60 and revealed his identity to the world, becoming a detective.
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From issue # 10 ( Spring 1944 ) the series dropped to 52-page issues, and with # 12 ( Fall 1944 ) the number of Black Hood stories was reduced to three, with a war adventure series " The Flying Dragons " taking up the extra space in # 12-13, followed by " Gloomy Gus the Homeless Ghost " by Red Holmdale from # 14-19 . " Bentley of Scotland Yard " ( who previously had a long-running series in " Pep Comics " ) had one story in # 14 ( Spring 1945 ) by Joe Blair and artist Paul Reinman, while the animal humor strip " It shouldn't happen to a dog " by Burton Geller completed issues # 16-17.
