Orson Welles's love of comics and Superman and so forth was a big plot point in KAVALIER AND CLAY. Though what Dolores del Rio was doing in the mix there I'll never know.
The big question is what Dolores del Rio is doing OUT of any mix. She is an essential nutrient, as far as I'm concerned.
Doug, I heard the same thing about those girls. It was in an old issue of Look Magazine from 1948.