Coincidentally, I am reading "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana," by Umberto Eco. A man loses his memory as the result of a stroke, but retains images of everything he had read. He searches his childhood literature and popular music seeking a key to his lost memory. A child in Italy during WW2, his reading takes him through comics songs and magazines of the time of Mussolini and the immediate post-war period.
One of the comics of 1939 was "On China's Seas," an Italianized "Terry and the Pirates." From American soldiers, he obtained a few originals in 1945. Connie is shown with Terry and a great image (full page) of the Dragon Lady.
This book awakens my memories as well; examples of the comics and title pages of stories are shown in color, and lyrics quoted of popular songs like "Lili Marlene."
Mandrake, Ming the Merciless, Azura and Flash Gordon, sheet music cover to Hope's "Road to Zanzibar," Bing Crosby in "Going My Way," Holmes and Watson, fancy cigarette packages (Murad, etc.), stamps from Labuan and Fiji, "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Treasure Island," much more.

A great read, a 'keeper.'