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Howard Chaykin Talks To ComicMix!
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Joe Palooka as a Weird-Menace Vehicle, by Michael H. Price
One connection leads to another and then another, whether via the proverbial Six Degrees of Separation or by means of random-chance Free Association. Which explains how the moviemaking Coen Bros., Joel and Ethan, and Ham Fisher’s strange trailblazer of a comic strip, Joe Palooka, come to be mentioned in a single sentence. The…

