Here are a few pages of then-current Hollywood trivia and meaningless gossip from 1936 and '37 issues of NEW ADVENTURE COMICS, the title that started as NEW COMICS and would end up in a long run for National/DC as ADVENTURE COMICS! Signed by "Laidlaw," these are clearly done in the tradition of the RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT newspaper feature which makes me wonder if this may have been a syndicated feature also. Most likely, though, it was just trying to look like one. In this pre-Superman period , most comic books were either actual strip reprints or cheap, homemade imitations that the publishers didn't have to pay as much for and thus could elicit more profit!
Ironic that piece on Jackie Cooper consitering he not only became a good director, but the head of Screen Gems (Columbia Pictures Television) in the 1960's
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