


Played With in an episode where for some reason, Brain and Binky think they're trapped at the soccer field and their moms forgot to pick them up. None of their parents seem to be concerned, with the exception of what happens in S2's "Lost!" where Arthur accidentally rides the bus line to the city limits. are about only eight years old and are in third grade, yet they run all about Elwood City much like teens several years older. Ratburn's class have all shared contact information with each other, while others make it clear that some of the parents are on a First-Name Basis. Close-Knit Community: Some episodes imply that the parents in Mr.Childhood Friends: The majority of the third-grade cast have known each other since preschool.PBS says she's a rat but Marc Brown says she's a poodle. Prunella is another character that's debated upon it is undecided on whether or not she is a poodle or a rat. Arthur and his family are the most confusing since they do not look like aardvarks at all. Cartoon Creature: One of the commonly asked questions about the show is the subject of which animal some of the characters are.But Not Too Foreign: Do any of the characters appear to be their ethnicities or nationalities? Then again, they are anthropomorphic animals.Bookworm: Every child character in the show has been seen in the library at least once.Book Dumb: Depending on the writer, any one of Arthur's immediate friends (except Brain), Arthur himself, or even the grown ups may be subject to this.In his later years, he lectured on paranormal activities. Burks moved to Paradise in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1948, where he continued to write until his death in 1974. entered World War II and eventually retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The pressure of producing so much fiction caused him to ease off in the late-1930s. One genre he was not to be found in was the westerns. He wrote primarily in the genres of aviation, detective, adventure and weird menace.

His byline was commonplace on pulp covers. He was well-known for being able to take any household object that someone would suggest to him on a dare, and instantly generate a plot based around it. He became one of the "million-word-a-year" men in the pulps by virtue of his tremendous output.
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In 1928 he resigned from the Marine Corps and began writing full time. After being stationed in the Caribbean and inspired by the native voodoo rituals, Burks began to write stories of the supernatural that he sold to the magazine Weird Tales. He served in the United States Marine Corps in World War I, and began writing in 1920. He married Blanche Fidelia Lane on Main Sacramento, California and was the father of four children: Phillip Charles, Wasle Carmen, Arline Mary and Gladys Lura. Burks was born to a farming family in Waterville, Washington.
