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Usual rules apply. First :takeit: takes it. Shipping is included. Just have a couple of items in this thread but they are rare. Here we go

 

William Moulton Marston, "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics." Offprint (a special printing of just this article as issued) from The American Scholar, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter 1943-44). 12pp in a printed wrapper reproducing cover of the issue plus a biographical statement about Marston, the psychologist who created Wonder Woman. This offprint was specially printed for separate distribution. The article includes two illustrations of Wonder Woman by Harry Peter and also mentions EC Comics founder M. C. Gaines several times (even encouraging readers to write him at 225 Lafayette Street in a footnote). A very nice, Near Fine copy, the only significant issue being a penciled checkmark next to the author's name on front cover. $175.

 

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"City Manager Report No. 320" (Berkeley, CA: October 6, 1955). 4to, 14pp (mimeographed one-side). An EXTREMELY RARE city report from the comics censorship era, begins with an account of a September 13, 1955 meeting at which a council member was given a copy of "The Vault of Horror," prompting this report of comics regulation (they end up concluding that the problem has already been sufficiently resolved that they do not have to take action). The Code of the Comics Magazine Association of America is included as a supplement. VG, has horizontal creases from having been folded into two and into three at different times. ONLY COPY I HAVE EVER SEEN. $375

 

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Little did they know the kind of stuff that would be going on in that city 10-15 years later...

 

"City Manager Report No. 320" (Berkeley, CA: October 6, 1955). 4to, 14pp (mimeographed one-side). An EXTREMELY RARE city report from the comics censorship era, begins with an account of a September 13, 1955 meeting at which a council member was given a copy of "The Vault of Horror," prompting this report of comics regulation (they end up concluding that the problem has already been sufficiently resolved that they do not have to take action). The Code of the Comics Magazine Association of America is included as a supplement. VG, has horizontal creases from having been folded into two and into three at different times. ONLY COPY I HAVE EVER SEEN. $375

 

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