jpepx78 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 when you think of the comics code authority, the one name & face that comes to mind is dr frederic wertham but here's some real names & faces associated with the comics code authority. the first code czar was charles murphy. (new york times 12/29/54) the changes made to that horror comic really defeats the purpose of a horror comic to be scary. one ec story that was initially not approved by the comics code authority reveals much about the people running the cca. read the story "judgment day" and the source of this excerpt here . Gaines waged a number of battles with the Comics Code Authority in an attempt to keep his magazines free from censorship. In one particular example noted by comics historian Digby Diehl, Gaines threatened Judge Charles Murphy, the Comics Code Administrator, with a lawsuit when Murphy ordered EC to alter the science-fiction story “Judgment Day.” The story depicted a human astronaut visiting a planet inhabited by robots as a representative of the Galactic Republic. He finds the robots divided into functionally identical orange and blue races, one of which has fewer rights and privileges than the other. The astronaut decides that due to the robots’ bigotry, the Galactic Republic should not admit the planet. In the final panel, he removes his helmet, revealing himself to be a black man. Murphy demanded, without any authority in the Code, that the black astronaut had to be removed. As Diehl recounted in Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives: This really made ‘em go bananas in the Code czar’s office. ‘Judge Murphy was off his nut. He was really out to get us’, recalls [EC editor] Feldstein. ‘I went in there with this story and Murphy says, “It can’t be a Black man”. But … but that’s the whole point of the story!’ Feldstein sputtered. When Murphy continued to insist that the Black man had to go, Feldstein put it on the line. ‘Listen’, he told Murphy, ‘you’ve been riding us and making it impossible to put out anything at all because you guys just want us out of business’. [Feldstein] reported the results of his audience with the czar to Gaines, who was furious [and] immediately picked up the phone and called Murphy. ‘This is ridiculous!’ he bellowed. ‘I’m going to call a press conference on this. You have no grounds, no basis, to do this. I’ll sue you’. Murphy made what he surely thought was a gracious concession. ‘All right. Just take off the beads of sweat’. At that, Gaines and Feldstein both went ballistic. ‘#@*% you!’ they shouted into the telephone in unison. Murphy hung up on them, but the story ran in its original form. the second comic code administrator was mrs guy percy trulock (ny times 9/15/56). the next code administrator was leonard darvin. here's an article from a 1969 issue of alter ego. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpepx78 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 charles murphy, code administrator of comics magazine association, holding pages of approved comics (sept 54). there's mighty mouse, archie, chip & dale and nancy & sluggo pages. some comics code stickers. a comic code brochure when mrs guy percy trulock was in charge. the actual comics code. Mmehdy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOT Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 What a bunch of great pics! Where did you get all these? Thanks for posting them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markseifert Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Spectacular, jpepx78! You are the king of turning up vintage comic-related pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lb jefferies Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 This is wonderful stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpepx78 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 What a bunch of great pics! Where did you get all these? Thanks for posting them! you're welcome. more stuff is being digitized and put online so most of the pics are from multi-level web searches and occasionally you find nuggets like these pics. You are the king of turning up vintage comic-related pics. If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. -William Tecumseh Sherman i believe there is a king already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquirecomics Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 I attended a fantastic Nostalgia Convention today with numerous tv stars from the 50s and 60s. While most of the dealers had movie/tv memorabilia (and I purchased some really cool espionage lobby cards and posters, comic book related lobby cards and original stills from A Night to Remember, which was about the Titanic), I was delighted to find this item below!!! Given the text on the sign I would say it is from 1955-56 just after the Comic Code Association started operations (if someone knows differently let me know!) and this was a promotional effort to really push the Code and the "new and improved" comics. And as it properly should be - filled with vintage ten cent comics!!!! Sarg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 I love the spinner rack, Mark. I saw an identical one in a dealer's booth at an antique mall in Pennsylvania many years ago. I tried to buy it but the dealer refused to sell it. He said he wanted it to display ephemera he had for sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquirecomics Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 I saw an identical one in a dealer's booth at an antique mall in Pennsylvania many years ago. I tried to buy it but the dealer refused to sell it. He said he wanted it to display ephemera he had for sale. , BZ it might have been the same one! The guy I bought it from purchased it earlier this week from an antique store in PA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilurl-migration Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 What a bunch of great pics! Where did you get all these? Thanks for posting them! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Web The Deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, DarkNet, Undernet, or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines. Mike Bergman, credited with coining the phrase, has said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed. Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web – those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. The deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web. And thanks for your research and posting. Great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ciorac Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Interesting piece. It is focused strictly on crime. Were there other editions that handled horror and sex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquirecomics Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Interesting piece. It is focused strictly on crime. Were there other editions that handled horror and sex? It actually reprints the whole code I believe. I only took a picture of the one interior page to give you guys a sense of the contents. I thought you would all figure that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Interesting piece. It is focused strictly on crime. Were there other editions that handled horror and sex? It actually reprints the whole code I believe. I only took a picture of the one interior page to give you guys a sense of the contents. I thought you would all figure that out. Apparently not all of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquirecomics Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Interesting piece. It is focused strictly on crime. Were there other editions that handled horror and sex? It actually reprints the whole code I believe. I only took a picture of the one interior page to give you guys a sense of the contents. I thought you would all figure that out. Apparently not all of us We should consider banishing you to the General Section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquirecomics Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 1964 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOT Posted November 28, 2011 Author Share Posted November 28, 2011 This report contains hearing transcripts and loads of evidence/exhibits. Great reading... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post eccomic Posted July 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) I present my copy of Frederic Wertham's personal reference copy of the 1951 New York Joint Legislative Committee to Study the Publication of Comics. This copy was housed in the Library of Congress amongst 220 boxes of personal correspondence and papers that were donated by Frederic Wertham's widow circa 1987. The Library of Congress retains on copy of any item and the duplicates are usually destroyed. The provenance on this (Frederic Wertham's personal reference copy) 1951 Report is magnificent in that he used several of the illustrations in the publication of Seduction of the Innocent in 1954. Gregg Van Vranken who worked for the LOC back in 1991 was given the daunting task of going through the "Wertham Papers" and rescued some of the duplicate ephemera accordingly. Gregg was kind enough to present Thommy Burns with some of the pieces. The 1951 Report has the tell-tale markings by Frederick Wertham in his red ink. The below link showing several pieces of Wertham's notes as well as markings, are present: http://www.tcj.com/warren-bernard-1954/... In 2011 the Wertham holdings at the Library of Congress were unsealed to the public and our esteemed fellow EC Fan Addict The second item that Thommy was kind enough to include in the trade was Wertham's copy of "What Your Parents Don't Know about Comic Books" large pamphlet in beautiful condition that is exceeding rare, never mind the provenance. Another copy sold THREE times on Heritage (THE SAME one THREE TIMES, in 2006, 2019, and 2020) and this is the only other copy I am aware of and the Heritage copy has a stamp on the back cover from the Baptist Convention. My copy lacks that stamp and I would maintain that this copy was retained by Frederic Wertham accordingly Edited July 12, 2021 by eccomic Spyder!, RareHighGrade, OtherEric and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
