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Slightly off-topic, but I figure you guys are the brain trust on old publications. Have any of you ever run across a magazine entitled "Japan" and put out by a Japanese steamship company?

Lucky for you that IDW is coming out with Steve Canyon reprints starting in January: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/08/04/idw-to-publish-milton-caniffs-steve-canyon/

You should change the order of your bottom row to Crime, nightmare, Great so that the seabed is a similar level. Other than that, its fantastic!

Fyi, there are a lot of articles in news archives about comic fandom from around 1964 onward, including a lot of articles about conventions in the 60s and 70s. Saw them while trying to find info on comic record purchases.

Did you look at what was on the shelf immediately above it?

That's a very old newspaper headline - I hope. I'd like to read one some day proclaiming "Ouster of All Politicians Near!" Many fabulous pictures in this thread though. (thumbs u That newspaper headline probably relates to Executive Order 9066 (February 1942) which led to subsequent orders like this: For me, the most interesting images in this thread are the pictures of the kids in the internment camps reading Timely comics.

That girl on the far right is faking it. I don't think she's really that into the comic. She's just making it look good for the camera. Probably thought she was going to be the next Shirley Temple. And the girl in the front is irritated because she doesn't like having her picture taken while she's trying to read a comic. And frankly, who does... who does? I'm not even going to comment on the poindexter reading Francis Mule except to say the school yard was a hard place for him as a kid. He probably had to grow up fast if he was going to survive. But secretly, he still likes Francis Mule to this day. He just can't tell anybody about it. Look how engrossed the girl reading Donald Duck is in that comic! Great picture!

We've all seen Ringo reading Mad (in Hard Day's Night). But has anyone seen this?

More:

Another view:

Anyone seen this one?

Can't tell if that is a comic in the background:

Not sure if these photos from LA Public Library database have been posted before:

Bangzoom, You need to vacuum your billiards table or stop practicing the trick shots around that dragon.

I think you miss the most important edited dialogue: The substitution of the word "desires" with "hopes." I also think the deletion of "I shut my eyes" can be explained not as censorship of an offending phrase, but of making the story conform to the new picture. I'd say that change is incidental to the wholesale re-drawing of the panel.

Except, it's not an example of "censorship," but of an editorial choice. That issue was never submitted to an industry watchdog as it pre-dated the CCA and post-dated the earlier (weak) regime. The publisher may have been motivated to delete that panel because of the public scrutiny the comic industry was under, or maybe it was an independent editorial decision. We'll never know.

Cool graphics. Interesting stuff. You might want to add to your research that the history of industry self-censorship of comics began in 1948 with the adoption of the ACMP Publisher's Code. It basically was the template for the CMAA's Comic Code Authoity started in 1954. Of course, there are a lot of instances of publishers "self-censoring" or, more accurately stated, using their editorial perogative in response to public complaint. A notable example is Fawcett's discontinuance of the use of the racist character "Steamboat" in response to complaints by the NAACP. So not all "self-censorship" was bad. One other point: You assert that "We all know the result of the CCA, which was (IMO) more than a decade of lame product with art and writing to match." I would not characterize the comics produced from 1954 to 1964 in that fashion. First, vast swaths of comic titles were largely unaffected by adoption of the CCA. You may not like Barks' Ducks, but many of us do. Second, while I won't dispute that the CCA had a profround negative effect on horror and crime comics, leading to the demise of many titles and even publishers (most notably EC), it also probably should be credited for helping to spur the re-birth of popularity for superhero comics (most notably Marvel).

This is why I love this forum, and this thread in particular. Never heard of Doolin. Always loved Planet covers. Absolute agree with BZ that this guy deserves recognition!

Does More Fun 51 trump 52?

Also Super Comics 49

On the Tule Lake rack: Target v.3 #2 (26) (April 1942). Buck Rogers No. 4 (1942). Also, a Field & Stream with the "flag cover."

Can anyone identify the Boy Comics or, what appears to me to be, the Laugh Comics?

Tule Lake Internment Camp: Manzanar Internment Camp:

(thumbs u I think I can arrange that in the next few days! Brilliant!

Interesting how the logo changed from the ashcan of Action 1 to actual Action 1 -- e.g. got rid of thin and squiggly lines top and bottom of logo for bolder border. Does the similarity between the as published "Action" logo and the "Action Funnies" logo mean the "Action Funnies" ash-can post-dated the publication of Action 1?