The first comic that I managed to read bits and pieces of, was a comic that I honestly don't remember the name of. It was large print and was mostly a comedy, social commentary type of comic, and all of the pages were in color.
It mostly consisted of the older father character and his old wife, taking care of their daughter and her would-be suitor. Hijinks between the father wanting to not be home much and wanting to hang out with his co-workers mostly, the wife constantly trying to fix things, and his daughter wanting to be pretty.
Most of the time the humor comes from the husband, but other jokes from the comics mostly result from insulting other characters or the women characters. There was also a mini version of the comics called 'and then they were married' or something along those lines, that usually entailed two wildly different situations, only being changed by the characters being wed.
Other comics that I managed to read were just things like the old Superman comics, Little Orphan Annie, and some random comic I don't remember that was about space and random stuff in space and people being lost in space, or something like that. The only one that felt like social commentary was Little Orphan Annie, without really relying on making the main character look dumb.
General impressions is that while there were definitely comics of the time that weren't mostly dependent on degrading characters that weren't the main character, and also didn't contain a lot of really bad caricatures, the comics that I managed to read were all of the variety that relied on that for their humor.
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