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UnRested Spectre

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  1. And do what with them? Eh eh... A comics burning in Binghamton, NY, 1948. Groups of students continued to burn comic books in school yards around the country, some under the sway of their parents and teachers, some in concord with them, some unsure of their own points of view and doubtful of the propriety of disagreeing with their elders, some emboldened to defiance through the burnings themselves. In one case—a grand public protest organized in Rumson, New Jersey, an affluent town near the seashore—the young people involved were exceptionally young, Cub Scouts, and they were only part of an elaborate plan arranged by a Cubmaster, Louis Cooke, a scout committeeman, Ralph Walter, and the mayor, Edward Wilson. As it was announced on January 6 at a “fathers’ night” meeting of the Rumson High School PTA, the event was to involve a two-day drive to collect comic books “portraying murderers and criminals,” a journalist at the meeting reported. A group of forty Cubs would tour the borough in a fire truck, “with siren screaming, and collect objectionable books at homes along the way.” Then the mayor would lead the boys in a procession from Borough Hall to Rumson’s Victory Park, where Wilson would present awards to the scouts and lead them in burning the comic books. The Cub who had gathered the most comics would have the honor of applying the torch to the books. When the national office of the Cub Scouts of America declined to support the bonfire, and news­papers as far-flung as Michigan’s Ironwood Daily Globe questioned it, the Rumson event was revised to conclude with the scouts donating the comics to the Salvation Army for scrap. A few weeks later, a Girl Scout leader in the farm-country town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Mrs. Thomas Mullen, guided her troop and local students in a comic-book burning, unencumbered. (The event had not been widely publicized in advance.) The scouts, fourteen- to eighteen-year-old members of Senior Troop 29, began gathering crime comics, as well as western and romance titles (because of their shootings and sexual innuendo, respectively), then turned the burning over to students at St. Mary’s, a Catholic high school of about 275 housed in an austere redbrick building, a refurbished old hospital. Following a -script by the parish pastor, Rev. Theon Schoen, the students conducted a mock trial of four comic-book characters, portrayed by upperclassmen who pleaded guilty to “leading young people astray and building up false conceptions in the minds of youth.” The trial, held on the school grounds after classes, concluded with a “great big bonfire,” as one of the students, Bonnie Wulfers, would remember it. As the books burned, Schoen led the assembled group of more than four hundred students from St. Mary’s elementary and high schools in a version of the now-standard pledge to “neither read nor purchase objectionable publications and to stay away from retail establishments where such are sold.” The Ten-Cent Plague Jack Hiyo! Like to be serious for a moment... Just popped in to check out what this thread about and saw this picture-post and read the contents, plus the article-link... it literally had me tear-up; that is just devastating to my heart to see and read for that to have ever existed.
  2. Hiyo! I am so sorry for being late with this... you sure have the right to knock me in the head! Must express my deepest gratitude for being the big-heart addition to my collection with the Death of Superman books of Adventures of Superman #500 and Superman #75 with the poly-bag and card-insert, also cannot forget the other books in addition to my collection from you... Truly hope to see you again for future-additions from you to my collection and hope your vacation-trip was memorable and magical!
  3. Hiyo! So sorry for being late on expressing my gratitude for you (Kramerica) for being apart of collection with the Batman and Detective Comics... it was a pleasure to know you from your thread and the personal-connection during the process! Stay safe and well... (thumbs u
  4. Nice hauling. I would crack open the Thor and get it signed by Stan Lee if the green label bothers you. I have an FF1 with a married page that came back 1.8 SS (married page) and it looks much worse than your JIM 83. Hiyo! What does it say on your green-label for the reason for it instead of the Blue-universal?
  5. Hiyo! Few more, then you will have to wait until tomorrow for more...
  6. Hiyo! (One of the creepiest covers I have in my collection and says a lot for all the Joker-influence covers I have in my collection) P.S. My Action brings all the fans to the yard and there like... "its better than y'all!" Damn right it is better than y'all... if I teach y'all, then I have to charge;
  7. Hiyo! Ding-ding... Round Two! P.S. More... muahahaha; more, more!
  8. Hiyo! Just do not know how happy I feel to get back to posting my lovely collection... (Must definitely take the time to acknowledge a fellow Collector Society member for his contribution to my collection with the stunning Wonder Woman books I got from him) Lets hop back to top/beginning of my collection with... P.S. More to show-off tomorrow!
  9. Hiyo! Ho-ho citizen... theres no need to fear! P.S. Are you drooling, because I know I am...
  10. Hiyo! Stand back! There is a hurricane coming through... P.S. Oh yeah! Are you feeling it, because I sure am... ; and it feels good!