they are all genuine. there are two thoughts. one is that it was a simpler time. and some contend that since many take place after the censors took over that writers tried to slip some stuff in. and for some reason Jimmy Olson cross dressed a lot.
Not quite the same, but I thought this run of Mickey Mouse was interesting. Minnie's cheating on him, and he tries to kill himself five different times.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner