Yeah, I knew you meant comics, but my point in naming those films is that they were a big influence on the comics and genre writers of the era. That kind of snappy repartee on the big screen is what they aspired to deliver on the page. (Also, in the prewar era the women characters could banter along with the men and weren't expected to be demure wallflowers, as they were in the postwar years...and this got reflected in the comics as well.)