The Comics Code---Saving your soul from eternal damnation!

[Wrightson fan]

I haven't ever seen this posted on the boards before, but I am sure it has probably been done. And no, I didn't perform a search to find out. I think it is really cool to read and consider this your daily comic history lesson. Pay attention as there will be a test at the end.

 

Scott

 

 

The ACMP Comics Code of 1948

 

 

 

The Comics Code of 1954

 

[aardvark88]

Dell Disney Comics did not subscribe to the CCA so they made filthy lucre by accepting ads like this to tempt the minds of young Americans! From a wholesome Uncle Scrooge comic:

 

[esquirecomics]

While at the same time posting ads such as this in major magazines.

 

 

[Scrooge]

While at the same time posting ads such as this in major magazines.

 

I'm sorry but this ad is not wholesome as I've always found Henry to be creepy

[Theagenes]

Werewolfism? I believe the preferred politically correct term is lycanthropicly challenged.

 

BTW, here is a link to the full transcript of Bill Gaines' testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Deliquency for those who might not have read it before:

 

Gaines Testimony

 

Jeff

[The Black Hand ®]

While at the same time posting ads such as this in major magazines.

 

 

 

I don't like the way that dog is looking at the kid.........

[Point Five]

Werewolfism? I believe the preferred politically correct term is lycanthropicly challenged.

 

BTW, here is a link to the full transcript of Bill Gaines' testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Deliquency for those who might not have read it before:

 

Gaines Testimony

 

Jeff

 

Thanks; I sure enjoyed that! Lots of great lines:

 

GAINES: It would be just as difficult to explain the harmless thrill of a horror story to a Dr. Wertham as it would be to explain the sublimity of love to a frigid old maid.

 

Zing!

 

At the bottom of the page is a link to Walt Kelly's testimony, which is well worth a read as well.

[Jamie Coville]

The entire subcommittee hearings transcripts can be accessed from:

 

http://www.thecomicbooks.com/1954senatetranscripts.html

 

I've also included pictures of the covers/stories they are discussing within the testimony.

 

 

[adamstrange]

Dell Disney Comics did not subscribe to the CCA so they made filthy lucre by accepting ads like this to tempt the minds of young Americans! From a wholesome Uncle Scrooge comic:

 

 

500 shots?

 

Gotta get me one of them so I'm not out-gunned by my buddies.

[aardvark88]

If u read the fine print of the Disney comic ad, after u gun down your neighbors, u can enter a contest to win a FREE trip to Disneyland, Ocean Park or a b/w tv which was a deluxe prized item in 1954.

[selegue]

I haven't ever seen this posted on the boards before, but I am sure it has probably been done. And no, I didn't perform a search to find out. I think it is really cool to read and consider this your daily comic history lesson. Pay attention as there will be a test at the end.

 

Scott

 

 

The ACMP Comics Code of 1948

 

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ALF 48 cover prototype!

 

Jack

 

 

[adamstrange]

The entire subcommittee hearings transcripts can be accessed from:

 

http://www.thecomicbooks.com/1954senatetranscripts.html

 

I've also included pictures of the covers/stories they are discussing within the testimony.

 

 

Very nicely done, Jamie! Thanks for taking the time to make it available! (thumbs u

[rodan57]

Dell Disney Comics did not subscribe to the CCA so they made filthy lucre by accepting ads like this to tempt the minds of young Americans! From a wholesome Uncle Scrooge comic:

 

 

I wonder if one could still argue that the ad meets the code as realistic gun facsimiles were banned and the ad notes "outer space designs are embossed on the sides to add to the fun"?

 

Dennis

[welcomebackpotter]

The entire subcommittee hearings transcripts can be accessed from:

 

http://www.thecomicbooks.com/1954senatetranscripts.html

 

I've also included pictures of the covers/stories they are discussing within the testimony.

 

 

Very nicely done, Jamie! Thanks for taking the time to make it available! (thumbs u

 

Senate Interim Report on Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency

The other reports in the set

The only report I am missing is the one on tv violence

[Wrightson fan]

You guys have taken this thread and ran with it in a way that does my heart good. Great work guys, and thanks for contributing to the history lesson. You all get an "A". (thumbs u

 

Scott

[Jamie Coville]

Cool. I got photo copies sent to me, so it's nice to see the actual report looking almost exactly like what I put online. I took some time in trying to make it look like the real thing.

 

 

[esquirecomics]

Here is a book from 1953 that touches upon the controversy.