Notes: Kitty's father reads "Fall of the Roman Empire," an apparent allusion to The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (Strahan & Cadell, London, 1776-1789). He derides comic books by looking through Oscar's copy of Georgie and describing a story about a flying carpet; the story described is clearly 2171 "Carpet Capers!" (8 pp.) in Georgie Comics 16 (May 1948). Exasperated by the ludicrous plot, he shouts, "What kind of guy writes this stuff?" When Oscar takes off on a flying carpet himself, passersby shout, "Look! It's a boid!" "G'wan, it's a plane!", an allusion to the opening lines of the 1940-1951 radio serial, The Adventures of Superman.