Salt Water Disintegrates Bathing Suit – Hôtel Morovache – Phantom Bowmen of WWI (comics)

Webb Miller, I Found No Peace (New York: The Literary Guild, 1936), 144-5. "[A] new synthetic fabric had been discovered which instantly dissolved upon contact with salt water. The millionaire had a number of women's bathing suits made from the fabric."

Nifty, November 1954, p. 16. “Yes, I did say salt water would dissolve this swim-suit – why?” 

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Charles Berlitz, Native Tongues (Castle Books, 2005 [1982]), 60.

Because in French les vaches (“the cows”) can mean the police (just as “pigs” does in English), a joke is sometimes played on tourists by recommending a reasonable hotel, the “Hôtel Morovache,” with the suggestion that any policeman knows where it is. When the name of the nonexistent hotel is pronounced by the innocent tourist, it sounds like mort aux vaches! – “death to the police!” – a familiar cry apt to be unappreciated by the local agents de police.

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“The Phantom Bowmen,” Weird Horrors #5, Dec. 1952.

 

“Bewitched Battalion,” Fantastic Comics #11, January-February 1955. A story based on the legend of the phantom bowmen of the First World War. Reprinted in the Comics Code era as “The Phantom Archers!” (Strange #3, August 1957), it has been self-censored to remove depictions of violence: the arrows and dead or wounded soldiers in the second panel are now missing.

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