And if so, how would you characterize it? Are there any blurbs or word balloons where the omniscient narrator or characters talk about the power/responsibility/nature of the press? Were there continuing characters, and if so, were they heroic characters? Or schlubs? Or even villains?

Yes, this is for the never-ending thesis. Thanks in advance, Legionnaires!

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  • The GCD tells me Gemstone reprinted the series about ten years ago.

    According to the GCD's listings, the title usually ran four comics stories per issue, featuring regular characters, and a text filler story.
    -Keith Michaels was usually (or always, I can't quite tell) cover-featured, and appeared in two stories in each issue. The covers suggest he was a crusading-reporter-who-can-handle-himself-in-a-fight type. To judge by the stories' titles, he was a roving reporter, and they were often set in exotic locations.
    -Steve "Slick" Rampart had a single story in each issue, and appeared in one of the Michaels stories in #4. His story from the first issue was titled "The Loaded... Camera". Possibly he was a photojournalist, but I wouldn't assume it.
    -Geri Hamilton was the third feature character in ##2-5. My guess is she was a female reporter.
    #1 instead had a story about one Jock MacDuff. It may be EC decided to not continue with the character, or that the story was always intended as a one-off.

    According to the GCD, the lead Michaels story in #3 was "illustrated text rather than multiple panel/strip art". That sounds like a try-out of the Picto-Fiction format.
  • I don't have Extra, but EC stories about reporters can be found in Shock Suspenstories Nos. 6 ("Under Cover') and 12 ("Deadline"). The former features an investigative reporter who meets a bad end; the latter has an alcoholic reporter trying to redeem himself with tragic consequences.

    "Deadline" sets the scene with "the din of clattering typewriters", letting us know we're in a newspaper office of the '50s.
  • Ooh, that's good. And something I need. I don't have much from the 1946-1958 period.
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