The late Los Angeles Herald Express was quite a newspaper. The Hearst folks put out the Los Angeles Examiner (a slightly classier publication) in the morning and the Herald Express in the afternoon. In the meantime, the Times-Mirror people had the Los Angeles Times in the AM and the Los Angeles Mirror in the PM. The Mirror was a little trashier than the Times but nowhere near as bad as the Herald Express. On Sundays, both companies published only their morning papers, but folded in certain features (including comic strips) from their afternoon papers.
Then in 1961, a deal was made. The Chandlers, who owned the Times-Mirror operation, agreed to drop their afternoon edition if the Hearst people would stop competing in the morning. One day, the Examiner and the Mirror went away. (The Hearsts retitled their surviving paper as the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. The Chandlers dropped the Mirror name altogether.)
For us comic strip fans, it was disorienting. The Times took a few strips from the Mirror (Pogo was one) but cast the others adrift. The Herald-Examiner briefly ran two full pages of comics but eventually whittled it down to one. (A few of the strips that failed to make the cut, like the daily of Popeye, continued to run on Sundays.) I suspect some adults were similarly disappointed since the afternoon Hearst paper cleaned up its act and ran less of what we now call "tabloid" material: Fewer crime stories, fewer tearful victims of catastrophes, and such.
I was reminded of the old Herald Express when Buzz Dixon (thanks, Buzz) called my attention to this site which features — and I quote: "Tabloid Pictures from the Los Angeles Herald Express." It's a gallery of photographs that ran in that paper. A few are a bit graphic, though not by today's standard. And what's especially interesting is that this is part of an exhibition for the Los Angeles Public Library. That's almost respectable.