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	The 11th Hour Web Magazine - Features - Four Color Wonders
		Comics in the 1930s and 1940s were considered in many ways an extension of the pulp magazines of the early 20th century, and in addition to costumed superheroes and men of mystery, also included crime stories, epic fantasies, and adventurers.
		Wertham claimed that comics glorified violence and were the source of moral decline in America's youth, not to mention "sexually aggressive in an abnormal way." His most damning claim, however, was that "comic book reading was a distinct influencing factor in the case of every single delinquent or disturbed child" he had studied.
		However, despite a surge in public interest stories slamming comics, and parental uproar, the industry itself was not largely affected, and continued to churn out crime and horror comics By 1953 over 500 comic books could be found on the market and comics sold 60 million copies a month.
	www.the11thhour.com /archives/122000/features/comics1.html (892 words)

	lurid comic books of the fifties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the early 1950's, a Senate committee was convened to look into the possibility that the comic book industry could be corrupting the minds of the young people of the nation.
		The longest passage in the comic's code governs the depiction of drug use, since comic books were presented to the Senate committee that contained scenes of people shooting up drugs and hypodermic needles going into people's eyes, stuff like that.
		Comics that passed the code carried a stamp of approval printed in the upper right hand corner, a symbol that you still see on comic books today.
	www.tvparty.com /tvp-m/comics/comic50s.html (604 words)

	Golden Age Comics Downloads
		MLJ Comics, the forerunner of the Archie Series, was an outgrowth of the magazine publishing activities of Morris (sometimes spelled "Maurice") Coyne, Louis Silberkleit and John Goldwater, whose first-name initials gave the company its name.
		They entered the comics field in 1939, with what had by then become a standard line of comics — a bunch of monthly anthology titles with superheroes on the covers and a variety of humor and adventure features in the back pages.
		Comics uploaded to the system that have yet to be sorted into folders/publishers but can still be downloaded.
	goldenagecomics.co.uk (1231 words)

	About The Comics Journal
		The Comics Journal is one of the nation's most respected single-arts magazines, providing its readers with an eclectic mix of industry news, professional interviews and reviews of current work on a monthly basis.
		Comics have been a vital art form since their modern inception, generally traced back to the newspaper strips of the mid-1890s.
		Those wishing to send comics directly to a specific reviewer may or may not get their books to that reviewer by sending it to our office with that reviewer's name on the package -- and not at all if the package is not separately and adequately stamped.
	www.tcj.com /1_frontdesk/about.html (616 words)

	Pulp and Dagger -- Editorial #68
		As well, comics weren’t just an innocent medium unfairly being picked upon when film and TV weren‘t -- because, particularly in the horror comics, scenes of violence and graphic gore were being depicted that would never have been shown in the other visual mediums of the day (film and TV).
		You see, the claim is comics in the 1950s was a vital, edgy, creatively fertile period and the Comics Code destroyed it, turning it into a bland, artistically dead wasteland of safe, badly written comics.
		And often when comics folks do point to great 1950s comics and storiesthey tend to be adaptations of “real” stories, or are praised more for their art than their scripts.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/editorial68.html (1809 words)

	Underground comix overview by Lambiek
		Harvey Kurtzman had liberated comedy in comics and inspired a new generation of cartoonists to push the boundaries of satire even further.
		In the 1950s, there had been a crusade against comics (especially those published by E.C. Comics), which had inspired the passing of the Comics Code, a set of rules to which comics creators had to adhere.
		Fredric Wertham, the man who wrote "Seduction of the Innocent," the book that was responsible for causing the ban on comics in the 1950s by alledging that comic books were corrupting kids.
	www.lambiek.net /comics/underground.htm (1027 words)

	ComicSource Newsletter No. 19
		Archie Comics fired DeCarlo, despite his four decade tenure at the company, after DeCarlo filed a lawsuit to reclaim the rights to one of the characters he had created.
		Later, in 1952, the license to publish Casper comic books was transferred by Paramount to Harvey Comics, which bought the characters outright in the late 1950s.
		Casper's comics far outlasted his theatrical career - they were published regularly until 1982.
	www.thecomicsource.com /news/news19.html (1180 words)

	Interview
		In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
		The comic that was published was called Spider-man. Marvel had stuck a hyphen in between the Spider and the man, for trademark reasons I suppose.
		These confession-style teenage romance comics were so successful that at one point there were more than 350 imitators battling it out in the market.
	www.simoncomics.com /jsmag.htm (1051 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Richie Rich
		When, in 1953, they gave Little Dot (the girl who likes polka dots to the point of obsession) her own comic, they created a couple of new back-up features for it — Little Lotta (the girl who eats all the time) and Richie Rich (the boy with limitless money).
		Warren Kremer, who is responsible for much of the "look" of Harvey Comics from the 1950s on, makes a more credible claim of having created the character.
		Oddly, it was in the same year as his last comic book, 1994, that the character made his biggest splash outside the comics medium.
	www.toonopedia.com /richie.htm (679 words)

	Horror Comix
		Comics could not present "scenes" of, or "instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism." Titles could not even use the words "horror" and "terror." EC left the business proper in 1956 to focus on a magazine version of their popular satiric comic, Mad.
		EC's comics became the stuff of legend; their entire stock has been reprinted, while originals fetch a small fortune from collectors.
		The 70s, in fact, saw a rebirth of horror comics, thanks to a 1971 revision of the Comics Code that lifted some of the taboos against depicting the supernatural.
	www.geocities.com /utherworld/seasons/horrorcomix.html (1582 words)

	Comics Scholars Survey Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Comics Arts Conference is designed to bring together comics scholars, practitioners, critics, and historians who want to be involved in the dynamic process of evolving an aesthetic and a criticism of the comics medium.
		On the reverse side Luca Somigli's panel "Comics: The Final Frontier of Academia?" was rejected by the MLA because his proposal "academicizes this subject in just the wrong way." Luca's reaction, "Dogmatism, anyone?" just about sums it up.
		My plan is for the advisory board to contain professionals, scholars, and fans, and for the membership to be as broad and as deep as possible, in the industry, the academy, and fandom.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/director/survresk.htm (427 words)

	The Other Guys: Pre-Code Horror Comics
		Comic books were clearly taking a great deal of their inspiration from the pulp magazines; generally, if something sold well in the pulps, it would turn up in comics not long after.
		Their longest-running title was Jumbo Comics, which had long since ceased to be any larger than any other comic book by the time of the horror fad; for its final seven issues, numbered #161 through 167, the cover and lead feature were horror, though the rest of the book remained a mix.
		The comics market was declining at the time anyway, and at very nearly the same time that the Code came in there was a major shake-up in the magazine distribution system--the American News Company, by far the largest distributor in North America, was liquidated by its stockholders.
	www.watt-evans.com /theotherguys.html (9713 words)

	Alex Schomburg Gallery
		Comic books only occupied him for a decade, from the late 1930s to the late 1940s.
		After leaving comics in the 1950s, Schomburg devoted his time to illustrating books and science-fiction magazines.
		Schomburg did a LOT of great comic covers, and the comics he did are avidly collected (and not cheap).
	www.samuelsdesign.com /comics/schomburg_gallery.html (255 words)

	The HORROR of it all!
		In the 1940s comic book publishing was such a prosperous game that many companies sprang up and hired anyone that "…could just draw your name."---(Harry Harrison, 1950s horror comics writer and artist).
		When William M. Gaines and Al Feldstein formed EC comics (Entertaining Comics) in 1950, little did they know of the mayhem they were to cause that would effect the industry for years to come.
		Citizen groups were formed that pushed for removal of comics from newsstands and mass schoolyard comic book bonfires.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /soapbox/103264795945099.htm (1529 words)

	Main American comics index page.
		The gallery images of comic covers have been included as a reference for collectors to view.
		These covers were printed in the USA at the same time as the original printing of the comics but printed in smaller numbers as overseas priced copies.
		Some larger comics were at different prices such as 1/6 (1 shilling and 6 pennies) or 2/6 (2 shillings and 6 pennies).
	www.comicsmagazines.com /dell.htm (713 words)

	Atlas Comics (1950s) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
		Atlas grew out of Timely Comics, the company Goodman founded in 1939 and whose star characters during the 1930s and '40s Golden Age of comic books were the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America.
		One of the most popular titles was the long-running Millie the Model, which began as a Timely Comics humor book in 1945 and ran a remarkable 207 issues, well into the Marvel-era '70s, launching spin-offs along the way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlas_Comics_(1950s) (3858 words)

	Romance Without Tears by Dana Dutch & Matt Baker - compiled by John Benson
		Better known for his sultry super heroines like the Phantom Lady, his best work is here in the Romance (and Crime) comics published by the St. John Co. These are comics that tell engaging stories about people whose actions have discernable motivations and who make decisions that they are then forced to live with.
		Sadly, it it is these later comics that are normally conjured up when one hears the term "romance comics." This is due, in large part, to specific images from these later, genre-in-decline (i.e., decadent) comics being given iconic status by their being reproduced in the paintings of pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein.
		These are the comics that now need to be remembered and reevaluated so that they may reenergize the comics of today!
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/RomanceWOTears.html (296 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Dr. Thirteen, the Ghost Breaker
		In the early 1950s, EC Comics was riding high with Tales from the Crypt et al., while dozens of other publishers were doing the same with Forbidden Worlds, Menace, Spellbound, Mystic and any number …
		Even staid old DC Comics was getting into the act, with the relatively tepid House of Mystery and its companions.
		But this is how Dr. Thirteen continued to be characterized, not just in his encounters with the Stranger, but even when, in the early 1980s, he briefly had a series in Ghosts (one of those supernatural/horror titles that don't usually have ongoing characters), and came face-to-face with The Spectre himself.
	www.toonopedia.com /doc13.htm (580 words)

	Quinton's Unofficial Marvel Comics Website
		Sub-Mariner was the first true icon of Timely Comics, and during the 1960s, Marvel Comics resurrected him and he has flourished in the Marvel Universe ever since.
		It was at this time that DC Comics was publishing such comics as the Justice League of America and Atlas responded by creating its own superhero team, the Fantastic Four, created by legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
		Stan Lee is generally considered the "founder" of Marvel Comics as he continued to create many of Marvel's most popular heroes, such as Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men.
	www.plu.edu /~kakaleqs (240 words)

	Mars Import - Comic
		By the early 1960s the Silver Age of comics was flourishing, and the concept of costumed superheroes was once again gaining mass appeal.
		As demand for the colorful heroes grew in the late 1950s, DC Comics reacted by revamping many of their greatest heroes from the Golden Age - heroes like the Flash, Green Lantern, and the JLA.
		Under Weisinger, however, the Superman mythos underwent a sustained expansion, with the introduction of the Phantom Zone, multi-colored versions of Kryptonite, and Krypto the super-dog (as well as the rest of the super-pets).
	www.marsimport.com /display_comic?ID=6357 (386 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: Chronological Index : "1950 to 1979 A.D."
		The Blank in the Comics strip collection includes a file of one or more daily comic strips related to this keyword or topic.
		Comics and Censorship in the 1950s" / Mark Finnane.
		-- Discusses late 1950s comics, and says the Silver Age ended for him with the arrival of the Marvel heroes.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/0rri/1950.htm (4951 words)

	I Love Giant Monsters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Inspired by the giant monster films of the 1950s, these comics featured short stories of people fighting against titanic threats from outer space, from unexplored regions of the Earth, or from human folly.
		They were precursors to the Marvel super-hero comics of the early 1960s and often featured plotlines, motifs, and even names that would later turn up in, say, Spider-Man or The Fantastic Four.
		For my part, having discovered the group of MicroHero makers, who create non-proportional versions of comics characters (what are sometimes called "super-deformed" in other contexts, usually meaning the heads are larger than the scale of the bodies), I decided to make MicroMonsters, Marvel Monsters based on the MicroHero figure templates.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~cje/mh/MM/Pages (1064 words)

	Superman Homepage
		Who's Who in the Superman Comics - Detailed database containing profiles on characters and places introduced in the Superman comic books since the revamp in 1986 and up to today.
		Superman Classic: Who's Who in the Superman Comics (1950s -1980s) - Detailed database containing profiles on characters and places introduced in the Superman comic books during the 1950s and up to the revamp in 1986.
		Comic Books in the Philippines - Neal Bailey takes a look at DC comic books published in the Philippines (2004).
	www.supermanhomepage.com /comics.php (951 words)

	Top 10 French Comics
		, and using it in a series of perfectly-designed, joyously nostalgic homages to the classic comics of the 1950s.
		decided to produce the French comics equivalent of American Graffiti with a series of beautifully-rendered, exquisitely colored, bittersweet stories of French youth, sexual awakening and rock and roll in a small provincial town in the 1950s.
		saga was the first post-modernist comic to incorporate a stream of consciousness narrative with modern science fiction concepts.
	www.coolfrenchcomics.com /top10.htm (1364 words)

	The Comics Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I am sort of interested in finding out if the other comics that the news items say Marvel originally offered that were rejeced as simply too much found a home or if they simply weren't historically valuable offerings.
		I also wonder if the 1950s stuff is a significant part of the collection.
		If you want to imagine what you might be missing if you live on this side of the ocean, it's always fan to scope covers at the Timely-Atlas cover gallery site.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/marvel_donates_comics (269 words)

	Amazon.com: Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!: Books: Grant Geissman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And reading these comics apparently never hurt me as I went on to garner four academic degrees.
		In the 1950s, while the other kids were ooohing-and-ahhhing over Superman and the Green Lantern, we few proto-geeks were absorbed in MAD Magazine and the equally lunatic E.C. monthlies, especially Tales from the Crypt, Creepy, Haunt of Fear, Weird Science, and the SuspenStories series.
		A great book by Grant Geissman that has become a grievous, unredeemable INSULT to the original 1950s artists it is supposed to be honouring.
	www.amazon.com /Foul-Play-Artists-Notorious-Comics/dp/006074698X (1617 words)

	www.comicsmagazines.com homepage. British comics, American Comics,Broons, Oor Wullie, vinyl records, 45s, collectors ...
		DC Thomson annuals and comics such as The Broons, Oor Wullie, Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Dennis The Menace, Beryl the Peril, Desperate Dan plus Dudley Watkins publications.
		The simple fact is that this is not possible to grade comics and value them withoput actually having the comics with us to examine.
		Grading of comics can be time consuming and this is reflected in the cost of this service.
	www.comicsmagazines.com (1268 words)

	Last Gasp Online Catalog - GOLDEN AGE OF DC COMICS, THE: 365 DAYS
		From the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, DC Comics blazed a creative trail in popular culture, introducing Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Shazam!
		This lavishly illustrated volume features entirely new, large-format photography of the original comic books, showcasing the visual world of DC superheroes and artists.
		Comics historian Les Daniels, graphic designer Chip Kidd, and photographer Geoff Spear have delved deep into the DC archives, highlighting both classics and lost gems in a days-of-the-year format.
	www.lastgasp.com /d/24878 (164 words)

	Comics Continuum
		Asked if the Batwoman character will be the same as the one from the comics of the 1950s and 1960s, Burnett said: "I can't tell you.
		But I'm sure people who have read the comics who will see this video when it comes out will see the parallels going on.
		"One time I asked Jeanette Kahn of DC Comics, 'What's your median age for comic-book readers?' And she just floored me when she said it was 25," Burnett said.
	www.comicscontinuum.com /stories/0212/02/burnettindex.htm (1314 words)

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