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was committed to the Kick Racism Out of
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Davis then became disenchanted with comics, pursuing a career as an illustrator, before returning as a comics writer on "Bus Stop", "The Woman Who Sold the World" and "The Widow's Curse", published in
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magazine as a two-page spread every week. Many of the changes made during Green and Davis' tenure on the strip were dropped in later revamps of the magazine.
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