Complex sentence: The Harvey Comics and newspaper strip were aimed at younger readers than Baker's wartime originals, and the style of the strip was changed dramatically, and as in the newspaper strip, the pantomime style was abandoned in favor of a more conventional comic story format.
Split into simpler sentences: The Harvey Comics and newspaper strip were aimed at younger readers than Baker's wartime originals, and the style of the strip changed dramatically. In the newspaper strip, the pantomime style was abandoned in favor of a more conventional comic-story format.