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The Books Briefing: Comics Can Push—And Draw—Boundaries

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Six quarters were all you needed, in the 1990s, to laugh until your belly hurt at a series of slapstick shenanigans, or to escape, for a few seconds, from your quietIllinois town and travel the world with a comics insert. All I know is there were a lot.   

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