tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557726951171561616.post3396837844873229185..comments2024-03-28T05:58:47.833-04:00Comments on Weird Science DC Comics: Weird Comics History Podcast Ep. 5 - After the CodeJim Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12307419602315578911noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557726951171561616.post-63356044921610106002016-09-05T16:37:04.782-04:002016-09-05T16:37:04.782-04:00Great podcast of comics code history. Back in 1995...Great podcast of comics code history. Back in 1995 I did my law school thesis on Canada's experience with crime comics and the litigated cases that were brought to court to test the Canadian Crinial code crime comic provisions. I also became quite familiar with Canadian politician Fulton. There is a particularly interesting picture in the Vancouver Gazette (times???) from around 1948 that had him pictured with kids reading comics. It was obviously a posed and contrived picture.<br /> Anyways, there were only ever 2 or 3 charges ever brought under the criminal code crime comic provisions and I believe only two minor convictions. Such a joke. <br />Most of the plates that comics were printed from were sent from New York to Montreal and the advent of the comics code also decimated the Canadian comic industry. So sad. But the entire debacle has created historical collector interest in "Canadian Whites".<br /><br />Anyways, thanks for such a thoroughly entertaining series of podcasts. It brought back traumatic memories of university research studies. But it also reminded me that I have a first edition "Seduction of the Innocent" albeit in pretty good shape. There is something inherently unfair in that Wertham facilitated what became the wholesale destruction of millions of comics..... Yet I have a mint like first edition of his book that lay at the foundation of it all. I would burn it if it wasn't so valuable. Lol.Mulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766558346251048919noreply@blogger.com