{"id":623,"date":"2011-12-24T02:12:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-12-24T02:12:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T07:12:33","slug":"love-media-research-queries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/623\/love-media-research-queries\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing What I Love Doing \u2014 Media Research and Queries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I got some\u00adthing that I not only like doing but wish I would get more of in the future: a request for infor\u00adma\u00adtion about a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar media item involv\u00ading hyp\u00adno\u00adsis. As a result, I was able to learn a lit\u00adtle more infor\u00adma\u00adtion about this item than I pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly possessed.<\/p>\n<p>The item in ques\u00adtion was a sto\u00adry from the adven\u00adture \/ crime \/ detec\u00adtive com\u00adic strip <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rip_Kirby\"><em>\u201cRip Kir\u00adby\u201d<\/em><\/a>. Rip is a detec\u00adtive in the \u2018old school\u2019 pat\u00adtern of the \u2018think\u00ading man\u2019s\u2019 detec\u00adtive although as an ex-Marine he was pret\u00adty good with his fists or a pis\u00adtol. Assist\u00ading him was his \u2018gen\u00adtle\u00adman\u2019s gen\u00adtle\u00adman\u2019 but\u00adler Desmond (who was a for\u00admer safe\u00adcrack\u00ader.) Rip Kir\u00adby was cre\u00adat\u00aded by <a title=\"Alex Raymond\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Raymond\">Alex Ray\u00admond<\/a> in 1946 and was in con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion until the char\u00adac\u00adter retired in&nbsp;1999.<\/p>\n<p>All the per\u00adson mak\u00ading the request had was a gen\u00ader\u00adal descrip\u00adtion of the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar sto\u00adry line, but it was one that I was famil\u00adiar with. As a result of the minor bit of research, I was able to deter\u00admine the exact pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion dates for the&nbsp;story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/623\/love-media-research-queries\/rip-kirby-1979-06-13-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-624\" title=\"Rip Kirby-1979-06-13 copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rip-Kirby-1979-06-13-copy-300x110.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rip-Kirby-1979-06-13-copy-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rip-Kirby-1979-06-13-copy-150x55.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rip-Kirby-1979-06-13-copy.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sto\u00adry involved a woman, Made\u00adline Mes\u00admer, who was inex\u00adplic\u00ada\u00adbly win\u00adning as a casi\u00adno owned by a friend of Kir\u00adby, who asked him to inves\u00adti\u00adgate. As you might expect from the wom\u00adan\u2019s name, she was a pow\u00ader\u00adful hyp\u00adno\u00adtist who used post-hyp\u00adnot\u00adic sug\u00adges\u00adtions to help her win at black\u00adjack. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly for Miss Mes\u00admer, she also attract\u00aded some unwel\u00adcome gang inter\u00adest and ulti\u00admate\u00adly found her\u00adself iso\u00adlat\u00aded because of the mis\u00aduse of her powers.<\/p>\n<p>The sto\u00adry was pub\u00adlished from June 11, 1979 through August 8, 1979, run\u00adning only 60 days, mak\u00ading the sto\u00adry very short in com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson to oth\u00ader sto\u00adries. It did, how\u00adev\u00ader, has sev\u00ader\u00adal scenes of Miss Mes\u00admer wield\u00ading her hyp\u00adnot\u00adic skills on sev\u00ader\u00adal peo\u00adple, includ\u00ading Rip and Desmond. By strange coin\u00adci\u00addence, I hap\u00adpened to see a col\u00adlec\u00adtion of the ear\u00adli\u00ader com\u00adic strips (mid-1950\u2019s) at a local com\u00adic store just a few days ago and had won\u00addered then when the strip would appear: now that I know exact\u00adly when it was pub\u00adlished, I expect it will be sev\u00ader\u00adal years before this par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar one will be reprint\u00aded. And it was all because some\u00adone had a ques\u00adtion for me to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I got some\u00adthing that I not only like doing but wish I would get more of in the future: a request for infor\u00adma\u00adtion about a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar media item\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/love-media-research-queries\/\" class=\"more-link\">\u21d2 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cDoing What I Love Doing \u2014 Media Research and Queries\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[183,10],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-comic-book-or-manga","tag-eye-contact","tag-hypnosis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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