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Missed these from a couple of weeks back. What great early comics! Some really tough ones there. Love the Ryan covers! Thanks for posting these!

Congrats - very tough book! Been on my want list for many years...

What a great Crandall cover!

Hey lady, sit down! You're rocking the boat! One of the great TOT issues with Powell and Nostrand art!

...or Vic (swipemeister) Carrabotta...

I think the Iger Shop horror stories are anything but inferior. I find them clever and humorous, and the art never disappoints. +1 Superiors provide some of the best reading of the pre-code horror era. Great art, great stories with many unique and off-the-wall concepts.

It is amazing that despite age,the forces of nature, and the appeal to kids to read it to pieces, this comic survives in this condition.

Thanks, Mr. G.U.! The only thing more fun than selling comic books is buying them! (thumbs u

Those are some great ones!

Many rare and fun Golden Age comics (with a few Platinum) ending on eBay Sunday night. A Gerber "7" and "8", Gerber "no-shows", unlisted comics, rare variants, and more! Check them out in this Marketplace Link

What a bunch of great pics! Where did you get all these? Thanks for posting them!

Posted these in a Labor Day thread in General, but figured they might like it here, too. Labor-related promotional comic books... A couple promo comics from Social Security, one from Sonoma County, and one from the Catechetical Guild.

Is that your original? Great piece!

My pleasure! Would love to see other examples if people have them!

That Showgirls is gorgeous!

That Rookie From The 13th Squad 1918 comic book created by Lieut. P.L. Crosby - Percy Crosby, who created Skippy

Although Sterling North wrote about the "dangers" of comic books in 1940, the push to ban or change the content of comic books really started to swell in 1948. That was the year that Dr. Wertham's anti-comics campaign gained nationwide attention. He wrote an article in Saturday Review of Literature and was widely quoted in another article in Collier's titled, "Horror in the Nursery." From 1948 until the Senate hearings in 1954, anti-comics sentiment grew. Discussions popped up among parent's groups and religious groups. Municipalities like Detroit and Los Angeles discussed banning certain comics. The New York Legislature and the U.S. Senate started investigating, and so on. As for the cultural context, of course there's no easy answer. In my opinion, you're right on both counts: a percieved increase in crime and apprehension about teen culture both contributed to the anti-comics sentiment. After WWII, a lot of things changed. The emergence of "teens" as a market and a social force, the growth in the number of women who worked outside the home, the increasing role mass media played in people's lives, the leisure time available to kids in economic boom years, and the perception (whether real or imagined) that violent crime was on the increase all led to a fertile climate for those social watchdogs who wanted to keep everything as it had been back in the "good old days." There's some excellent reading out there on the subject. You might want to start with David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague and Bradford W. Wright's Comic Book Nation- The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Lots of interesting thought on this thread. Thanks to all for sharing. One thing we tend to overlook is that publishers kept pushing the boundaries of taste and decency. Today, one has to think twice before taking a child into some comic book stores because of the lurid covers. In the 1940s and 1950s, comic books were on display in many more general venues. Concerned parents couldn't avoid the extreme subject matter. While some collectors today cherish Crime Suspenstories #22 and its ilk, who in the 1950s would want their kids to see it on a trip to the grocery store? We can admire their craftsmanship, but those comics had some of the most base and twisted characters and stories in all literature. The greatest cause of the industry's persecution and decimation may have been the lack of restraint by EC and its competitors, rather than any outside force.

Another great piece of history!

Wow! Never saw it or even knew it existed. Very nice!

Another outstanding Alanna post. Don't usually comment on your posts - what's to say?? But wanted to thank you for showing all the great comics in amazing condition. You must have a time machine...

Took years to find a copy of this comic. Got it for the Everett Lorna parody. I think the scarcity of many mid-50s books may be underrated.

Some of the best looking comics ever produced...

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That guy could draw! Thanks for sharing these! Here's another Robotman story from Det. 147 (not my scans):

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