Bo_Hogg1 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 This is the only one I have from 1948. I was drawn to the ultra cool superhero cover. There is all text inside. ecgt, pmpknface and telerites 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Like most of your cool stuff Bo, never seen that one before. I'm pretty sure I have a couple magazines with anti comic articles pre-SOTI but would have to look, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 I think the only one I have is the Reader's Digest with the SOTI preview, which I guess doesn't really count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecgt Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 My interest is piqued, Bo. What is the interior like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Hutch88 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 I think this is post but what a toughie to find. It was published in England ender, Hutch88 and Larryw7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 On 2/2/2018 at 12:59 PM, Bo_Hogg1 said: This is the only one I have from 1948. I was drawn to the ultra cool superhero cover. There is all text inside. That's a great book! I'll dig around and see what else I have. Hutch88 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 On 2/2/2018 at 12:59 PM, Bo_Hogg1 said: This is the only one I have from 1948. I was drawn to the ultra cool superhero cover. There is all text inside. Well, I finally dug around in the vaults and found some fun pre-SOTI books. I'll start with my copy of The Comics, by Sister Mary Clare. From 1943, it's my earliest anti-comics item. Including the one pictured above, I've seen two instances of the red cover version, and one instance of a yellow cover version (which I bought). Separately, I bought another pamphlet from the same author, "What Is A Nun?" I believe this was referenced by Wertham on pp. 228-229 of SOTI. szucchini, PeterPark and pmpknface 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 Moving forward chronologically, the next I have is from American Scholar, in the winter of 1943/44. This isn't the whole magazine. It's a reprint of just William Moulton Marston's article "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics," saddle-stitched with a copy of the cover to that magazine. pmpknface, PeterPark and szucchini 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 In the fall of 1945, there was this issue of Arizona Quarterly. In it, Walter Ong writes "The Comics and the Super State." More to come... as we hit 1948 and Wertham's first nationally-published anti-comics article, the number of comic book-related publications increased significantly. PeterPark, Scrooge, szucchini and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 In 1947, New Republic published Mayra Mannes' "Junior Has A Craving", all about comic books. pmpknface and szucchini 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SOTIcollector Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) And my last entry before we hit the tumultuous year of 1948, we have McCall's magazine, with "What Do They See in the Comics?" Edited December 3, 2018 by SOTIcollector pmpknface and szucchini 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Comic creators of the 1940's = "hare-brained, money mad pagans" Awesome!!!! Larryw7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfcityduck Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 On 12/1/2018 at 4:37 PM, SOTIcollector said: Moving forward chronologically, the next I have is from American Scholar, in the winter of 1943/44. This isn't the whole magazine. It's a reprint of just William Moulton Marston's article "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics," saddle-stitched with a copy of the cover to that magazine. Are you sure that is a reprint? Typically, law and academic journals give authors the opportunity to obtain a bunch of copies of their articles in that format for personal distribution. They are typically printed the same time as the journal. I still have copies of the article I did in law school in that format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, sfcityduck said: Are you sure that is a reprint? Typically, law and academic journals give authors the opportunity to obtain a bunch of copies of their articles in that format for personal distribution. They are typically printed the same time as the journal. I still have copies of the article I did in law school in that format. I am precisely zero percent sure this is a reprint -- that was just conjecture on my part. I was trying to indicate that I don't have the whole magazine, and have just this standalone article in a cover. I should have chosen my words more carefully. If it is typical to produce such a copy at the time of the original publication, then I'd say that's likely what happened here. Thanks! Edited December 4, 2018 by SOTIcollector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Oh, and we can't leave 1947 without a nod to Colton Waugh's The Comics. In this book, we learn that newspaper comic strips are great. And then at the end, there's a chapter that politely informs us that comic books are . I love the description of Schomburg's cover to Speed #33. szucchini and Cat-Man_America 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIcollector Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 When we hit 1948, stuff starts to hit the fan. Here we have the March, 1948 Collier's article, "Horror in the Nursery." According to the author, there's some guy named "Wertham" who says comics are full of material that's not suitable for kids. pmpknface 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archiefan Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 7 minutes ago, SOTIcollector said: I am precisely zero percent sure this is a reprint -- that was just conjecture on my part. If it is typical to produce such a copy at the time of the original publication, then I'd say that's likely what happened here. Thanks! I used to own one of these myself (the Marston article with the cover wraps) and in bibliographic and antiquarian book collecting circles it is called an "offprint" szucchini 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 On 12/1/2018 at 7:29 PM, SOTIcollector said: Our Sunday Visitor Press, a few miles down the road from me, is still in the Catholic publications business. Founded in 1912. SOTIcollector and Larryw7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...