Bloody Pulp at KSU

Chronicling the creation of "Bloody Pulp: Crisis in the American Comic Book" an original stage show about the history of comics and the panic that almost put them out of business.

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Cover Your Eyes: the Graphic Horrors of 1950s Comics - Print Magazine

Michael Dooley explores vilified vintage comics in part 2 of this 2 part series celebrating Banned Books week.

Great article with info and pictures of horror comics from the 1950s

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Collected Jack Kirby Collector

Back for its fourth printing, this colossal 240-page trade paperback reprints issues #1-9 of The Jack Kirby Collector, the highly acclaimed magazine for Kirby fans! Included are the low-distribution early issues, the Fourth World theme issue (#6), and the out-of-print Fantastic Four theme issue (#9)! Also included is a new special section with over 30 pieces of Kirby art never before published, including Jack's uninked pencils from The Prisoner, New Gods, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Thor, Hunger Dogs, Jimmy Olsen, SHIELD, and more! Learn behind-the-scenes secrets through interviews with Kirby, Joe Simon, Mike Royer, Mark Evanier, Steve Sherman, Joe Sinnott, and other Kirby collaborators. This volume features a new introduction by Mark Evanier, and page after page of rare Kirby art, much in its original pencil form. Celebrate the life and career of comics' most prodigious imagination: Jack Kirby!

Not the entire book, but enough to fill in a lot of gaps about King Kirby

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Newsboy, Indianapolis, 1908.

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A few decades before our show, but a solid representation of the popular image of a newsboy.

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Strange Adventures #29, December 1953, cover by Murphy Anderson

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Here’s an audio recording of Stan Lee announcing Steve Ditko’s departure from Marvel Comics, 1966. No joke! This is the event that ends Chapter Two of my book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. (The sound improves at the two-minute mark.)

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Smilin' Stan throws Steve Ditko under the bus.

Stan and Steve had a problematic relationship.

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He seems nice...

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The Sign Of A Good Comic, 1949.

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Seduction of the Innocent

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Head on over to Print Mag to see excerpts from the comics Wertham found objectionable. A pretty good opportunity to learn more about Wertham’s own obsessions and neuroses.

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Zip Comics #4, May 1940, cover by Charles Biro

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Good gravy, that's....Freudian.

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From the youtube description:

"A report by Paul Coates. Produced by Jim Peck. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Aired October 9, 1955. A KTTV Production, Los Angeles, for Times-Mirror.

In 1954 the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency conducted an investigation into how the comic book industry was supposedly contributing to the moral decay of a nation's youth. The investigations were spurred on by a number of articles that blamed comics for the rise in juvenile delinquency in post-war America. Chief among the critics was Doctor Frederic Wertham, whose book, "Seduction of The Innocent" has been blamed for nearly single-handedly crippling the entire comics industry.  In 1955, the comic book publishers formed the self-regulating organization, The Comics Code Authority, which great impacted on how comic books were perceived by the public and what kind of stories were told in the comics for decades. The effects of the virtual witch-hunt from this period in American history still has effect on the comic book industry to this day.  "Confidential File" was aired in 1955, after the senate hearings and the formation of the Comics Code, but it serves as a perfect example of how the media reacted to the comic book industry, and sought a scape goat by blaming the comic book publications for society's own lack of responsibility in raising its children. A blame game that would later manifest itself when later TV cartoons, rock and roll music, Dungeons & Dragons, videogames, and so on would become the new whipping boy for those that didn't want to look to themselves for the state of their own children and society's sad state. It is my understanding that the television program uploaded here is in the public domain, and is being shown here for educational purposes."

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  A history of the "Jughead Hat"

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Who's buying me this?

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Comic Book hearings 1951

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April 1963 discussion between Wertham and Alfed Hitchcock on "violence in the media."

This is fascinating stuff...