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Article about the success of the General Electric comic book program, written by one of the managers of the program.

Article about the success of the General Electric comic book program and other educational booklets.

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Hot Off the Press

For 37,000 science teachers and the same
number of social studies teachers, two new
G·E booklets, "The Story…

Article about the success of the General Electric comic book program and its manager, Dwight Van Avery.

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"Education is no joke." This is
the title of a two-page feature in the June
10 magazine section of the New York Sunday
News…

Article about the popularity of the GE comic books in class rooms, listing the popularity of the early comic books.

Biographical article about Frank Panny, an GE Educational Relations employee who worked on the comic book project.

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You put a microphone in front of a performer
or a politician and he becomes
almost incandescent. But not…

Article about success of GE comic book distribution.

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Since they were originated in 1944, more than
125 million educational comic books
have been distributed by the Company's
Educational Relations & Support Service.

Article about the international success of the GE comic books.

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Ubiquitous Atom: General Electric's
educational "comic book" Adventures Inside
the Atom, recently translated into
Urdu and Arabic, has made its debut in
Pakistan and…

Article about how the comic books helped make GE the most recognized brand among teenagers.

Article about the Adventure into the Future comic and planning a future career in engineering.

Article announces the new Land of Plenty comic book.

Transcript of article:

announcing
Another
New Cartoon
Narrative
WITH the presses barely stilled
after printing one new cartoon
narrative for General Electric, another
one is ready to…