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The Euro Books 2-in-1 Oversize comics have arrived. Published in 2007, these are graphic novel-size, at 22 x 29.5 cm and in full colour. Like all of the other Euro and Egmont titles, they reprint Egmont (Scandinavian) stories in English.

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Beyond Eden, a multi-gallery event celebrating the LA’s New Contemporary art movement, will be hosted by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in October. The event has been put together by Andrew Hosner (co-owner / curator at Thinkspace) and made possible by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The New Contemporary Art Movement continues to build momentum on a national level and is finally starting to receive mainstream recognition from major institutions and publications the world over. With its foundation firmly planted in Southern California and a patron base here in Los Angeles that has been building over the past several decades, it’s easy to see why Beyond Eden has been welcomed with such open arms by the Los Angeles arts community and has become an anticipated annual event. It will be sad to see it go but due to rising costs associated with the City, we can simply no longer afford to put this on and have it live up to the standards of our past events. We plan to make this final event one for the history books and one you won’t soon forget. Beyond Eden 2015 will showcase the works of five New Contemporary art galleries and will be held during the weekend of October 3rd and 4th with an opening night celebration planned for Saturday, October 3rd from 6-11PM. Participating galleries include C.A.V.E. Gallery (Venice, CA), Copro Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Spoke Art (San Francisco, CA), Hashimoto Contempoary (San Francisco, CA) and event organizers Thinkspace (Culver City, CA). In addition to the works on display from the participating galleries, Beyond Eden 2015 will also feature special solo showcases from both Meggs and Mear One. ‘Paving Paradise’ from Meggs will feature an array of new works from the Australian artist along with a large-scale painting / mural for all to enjoy. ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ from Mear One will showcase some of his largest and most iconic paintings to date. Live painting demonstrations on the gallery’s balcony will also be taking place during the opening reception on Saturday night.

"I am currently working on a group of paintings for Darren Knight Gallery. These works are mainly mythic landscapes. Worlds that I work out in the studio using photos and natural objects. I make little dioramas on tabletops to use as models so I can focus on the detail of the forest floor or the way leaves hang. My studio is littered with collections of leaves, sticks, mossy rocks, lichens etc. I use oil paint and generally use a ground of cadmium orange or red to bounce the other colours off. I use a lot of very small brushes for the detail in the work, building up the painting layer by layer. I strive for a kind of stillness where – by going into more and more detail until it’s as if every molecule is glowing – I can give the objects life and strength. There are a few related themes among the current works but they aren’t strictly a series. There’s a diptych and another large oil-on-canvas that represent Australian flora and fauna, and then some smaller works that are loosely still lifes drawn from a domestic garden environment. The landscapes are imaginary. Either based on childhood memories of growing up in Papua New Guinea or the desert country of Australia. The desert where I have never actually been but based on stories of my father who was, in his younger days, a drover and worked on stations in Queensland and the Kimberley. Stories of the amazing country and people, and of stumbling over relics and rock art. Of the beauty and history of the landscape that had such a huge effect on him. My grandmother was a botanist and an interest in the bush and gardening runs in my family. I grew up near Goroka in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, so intense colours and exoticness have always fascinated me. Also the beliefs and animism of the local people, that every part of the landscape held a spirit or story. It’s the constant merging of reality and myth. I think that is why I don’t approach my paintings from a naturalistic perspective but am more interested in layered accumulations of incongruous animal and plant images." James Morrison

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Enter The Phantom was the 1st issue of The Phantom to be Published by Frew Publications. It was published in 1948 under the Title Enter the Phantom and later republished as a free replica with issue 972 in 1991.

The Phantom The Phantom appears in 2481 issues. Created in 1936 by Lee Falk, The Phantom dwells deep in jungles of the African nation of Bangalla. The "Ghost Who Walks" has battled pirates and criminals for more than 400 years! During the sixteenth century, a man named Christopher Walker was sailing on the seas of Africa with his father, when they fell prey to pirates' attack. The pirates slaughtered the ship's crew and blew up the ship. The only survivor was young Christopher. He was washed up onto the Bangallan Beach. He then took his father's skull and swore an oath upon it, "I swear to devote my life to the destruction of piracy, greed, cruelty and injustice! And my sons, and their sons, shall follow me!" Thus originated the first Phantom. He became friends with the various local tribes and dedicated his life to fighting injustice and cruelty. The violet costume was standardized by this Christopher 'Kit' Walker.

The animated movie Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks, from Hearst Entertainment, Inc./ King Features Syndicate, Inc.is based on the popular television series, Phantom 2040. In the year 2040, the fate of the planet depends on the intelligence and courage of the young Kit Walker who is now the Phantom in the year 2040. He must battle the evil and destructive Rebecca Madison who plans to destroy all of the earth's resources. The Phantom can stop her only be the way through virtual worlds and "remote brains".

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" had the idea of making a lot – 130 to 140 – of smaller works exploring all the possibilities I had in my head about painting. One of the things that’s difficult when you’re getting ready for an exhibition is you have all these fantasies about what sort of paintings you could make – and a lot of the time you can’t make them, because there’s not enough time or whatever. But here in my studio at Gertrude Contemporary I’ve been able to take my time and look at that dynamic. So I’ve been experimenting with many different styles in these small paintings: landscapes, abstractions, Futurism, figurative works, figures in landscapes, figures in abstractions… A lot of it was bad but a lot was good too, and it broadened my understanding of what goes into certain paintings. As I worked the small paintings began to feel too much like studies – I wanted to make something bigger, more generative of energy, more of a major work. So I did some studies along the lines of these small works and thought, ‘Well, why don’t I just blow these up and have a lot more room to play with them?’ These big paintings work a line between hard-edge abstraction and something more lo-fi. So, I’ll use masking tape to make rough measurements for the blocks of colour rather than to achieve strict edges, but in some parts of the paintings I do that too. There’s a lot of paradox and contradiction in there. At the moment I’m really into merging the lo-fi with the hi-fi, making things look like they’re perceived to be futuristic or talking of some sort of technological realm, but then at the same time the paint looks really deliberate and coarse. I’m interested in the immersive nature of contemporary technology, all the screens out there – computers, TVs, mobile phones, the proliferation of pop-up windows and sky gradients on computer screens. Cells, conduits and generative power, power plants and sources, energy matrices, foldback and coding – to me the works talk about several different aspects of our visual world." Trevelyan Clay

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About Mandrake A true classic and a standard among comic strips, Mandrake the Magician has been mystifying readers since 1934! Mandrake the Magician was created by Lee Falk during the Great Depression, a time in our nation’s history when adventurous comic strips became popular for their morale-building appeal. The dapper, mustached magician remains one of the most famous characters in the comic strip medium, his adventures appearing in newspapers worldwide. Mandrake uses his legendary powers of hypnotism and illusion to combat crime, and has worked his debonair magic to find a place in the hearts of comic strip fans everywhere. Many comic strips and comic books throughout the history of the medium have starred mystics and magicians. Over the years, characters such as Merzah the Mystic, Sargon the Sorcerer and Zanzibar the Magician have worked their magic on readers, but none have displayed the longevity of the Mandrake the Magician comic strip. Mandrake was also the first comic strip with a racially integrated cast of crime-fighters. Mandrake’s partner in adventure is the gigantic Lothar, and the two of them have been fighting evildoers for decades! Mandrake is also aided by his wife, the lovely and exotic Princess Narda. Falk originally drew the Mandrake strip but soon turned the job over to artist Phil Davis, who illustrated the silken illusionist’s doings for more than 30 years. When Davis passed away, Falk recruited current Mandrake artist Fred Fredericks. After Lee Falk’s death in 1999, Fredericks took on writing duties as well, writing and illustrating the strip until his retirement in 2013.

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work on ideas, sketch and make prototypes in the studio space here

at the back of my house in Ormond. I also use it for my jewellery practice. I have another studio for my drawings and, when I’m scaling up sculptures, I’ll work with foundries or larger factory spaces. A typical day starts, before I even get to the studio, with emails and phone calls: I spend a lot of time negotiating with production people. Then I’ll work in the studio in the afternoon before I might head over to the foundry to check on a work being made in bronze. But there’s no such thing as a typical day – I’m not at all a nine-to-fiver – it just depends what I’m working on. I’m currently working on a piece for the McClelland Sculpture Survey. It will be a metre- high sculpture made in Yunan marble and based on a species of snub-nosed monkey discovered on the Myanmar–China border. It’s evolved a short nose but now global warming is causing precipitation and the monkey has started sneezing, which is how scientists found it. I’m working on a sound component with my long-time collaborator Charlie Owen. We’re recording a sneezing sound so, like the scientists, people will hear it in the McClelland bushland before they see it. The work comes from an ongoing series researching new species that have been discovered because their habitats are being destroyed. It’s a tragic paradox. I’m also working on an exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery in November based on a ‘love story’ between a gorilla and a woman. Bokito became famous after he broke out of his enclosure at Rotterdam Zoo and attacked a woman. When the zookeepers reviewed what happened, her injuries were consistent with ‘love bites’ that a dominant gorilla would inflict on one of his female concubines. It turned out the woman had been visiting him for years and felt they shared a connection. She said afterwards, ‘When I laugh, he laughs with me,’ and that’s the title of my show. But for gorillas to ‘laugh’ or bare their teeth is a sign of nervous aggression. The work is about complex communications, things you could probably relate to in your own everyday human relationships.

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Artist Wayne Dowsent's latest Speed Painting features "The Phantom" from the adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk. The Phantom is the 21st in a line of crimefighters that originated in 1536, when the father of British sailor Christopher Walker was killed during a pirate attack. Swearing an oath to fight evil on the skull of his father's murderer, Christopher started the legacy of the Phantom that would be passed from father to son, leaving people to give the mysterious figure the nickname "The Ghost Who Walks".

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Last week marked the release of Chris von Wangenheim’s first monograph of his groundbreaking fashion photography. The book, titled “Gloss: The Work of Chris von Wangenheim”, explores his work for magazines such as Interview, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue from 1968 to 1981.Through his work, von Wangenheim’s revolutionized the way fashion was seen and depicted.

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When Ray Moore went to war, his friend Wilson McCoy took over the artistic duties of creating the Phantom strip. When Moore came

back, he tried to resume drawing

the Phantom, but a war injury

made it difficult, so then McCoy returned and continued as the artist until his death in 1961.

uring his tenure on the strip, McCoy took his job as the Phantom artist

very seriously and once said “Maybe the Phantom is my subconscious self finding an outlet.” He had a special skull ring made for his personal use and he created the clay model of the Phantom which Moore is shown holding in a publicity photo. There were times when in response to request, McCoy sent original art from his strips to fans who requested them. He also created a special certificate with a Phantom seal, which he designed and autographed. The certificate was witnessed by his wife Dorothy (who also contributed to the strip by ruling and lettering the panels and modeling as Diana’s mother). These documents were sent to Phantom fans who wrote to McCoy, and verified that the fan was a member of an exclusive club. Very few are known to exist today and rarest of all are examples with the autographs and the gold seal. Another very special rare version of the document was created just for Christmas. (Although knock off of these documents have been reproduced, the originals are on aged paper with a watermark that makes them impossible to copy.)

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Phantom Dust â&#x20AC;&#x153; Arriving as Xbox One Exclusive: Here's Everything We Know So Far http://www.ibtimes.co.in/phantom-dust-arriving-xboxone-exclusive-heres-everything-we-know-so-far-620573 When The Phantom Dust hit the store shelves in 2004, not many people knew about it, or the fact that something like it existed, rest the ones who are really addicted to anything that spells RPG. Microsoft had a few ambitions when the game first came around, and some of it did involve churning out some financial numbers out of it. But that never happened. However, with the upcoming re-imagining of the game, we surely expect fortunes to change for Microsoft and hope that the game will reach out to more audience in due time. After all, Spencer, himself, has described the game as "magical." http://joshreads.com/?p=5781

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WHY the Phantom? Why not Superman? Or Batman? Why does a comic book character created before World War II still resonate so strongly with many generations nearly 80 years later? Is his appeal just an antipodean anomaly or something more? Could any fictional comic book character easily attract over 40 artists in 2014 to reinterpret his image in an exhibition in Australia, let alone anywhere in the world? Let’s start at the beginning. The creator of The Phantom was Lee Falk. Falk was born in St Louis Missouri in 1911 and died in New York in 1999. As a young boy, magicians, exotic places and legends had fascinated Falk. When he originally decided to turn his skill as an artist and storyteller to comic strips he created Mandrake the Magician, purportedly using himself as the model for the pencil moustachioed crime fighter in a top hat. That was in 1934, a full two years before he created The Phantom. Mandrake had supernatural (or rather “magical”) powers, such as using hypnosis to make his opponents hallucinate, and embarked on adventures, thwarting villains and solving crime. Crucially, Mandrake was often aided by his best friend Lothar, a native of Africa and therefore a harbinger of Falk’s later depiction of exotic locales, which would manifest itself in The Phantom and the country of Bengali/Bangalla, which he inhabited. When Falk created The Phantom in 1936 he was the first costumed “superhero” and predated Superman (1938), Batman (1939) and Spiderman (1962). The same year that the “Ghost Who Walks” first walked, Gone with the Wind was published, the Queen Mary set sail on her maiden voyage, the German boxer Max Schmeling defeated African American Joe Louis, Hitler presided over the opening of the Berlin Olympics and the US was just beginning to emerge from the Great Depression. Falk originally envisaged the Phantom as a wealthy New York playboy by day and the Phantom by night, an escapist fantasy that would no doubt have appealed to comic book audiences during those penurious times. He abandoned this premise early on and some have speculated that had Falk persevered with this storyline ( as Bob Kane and Bill Finger later did with Batman), the Phantom would have had much greater appeal in the US than he did. While technically a “superhero”, the Phantom is ironically greater than that for he fights crime and rights wrongs without the aid of “superpowers” to assist him.

If he could fly unaided through the sky or tie a one-inch metal rod into a bow or leap a tall building in a single bound then defeating the Swamp Rats or Singh Brotherhood would be a cinch. Rather it’s his human skills and resourcefulness (not to mention a pair of handy pistols and a crashing right blow) that invariably save the day. Like Batman, he owes more to earlier pulp detective fiction than the legion of super charged superheroes, which followed. It is perhaps this humanness and vulnerability that has maintained the Phantom’s appeal for generations in Australia. Even from an early age, most bright children realise they don’t possess super powers. No heat or X-ray vision, super strength or super hearing for them. Deep down they know they could never be Superman but maybe, just maybe they could be the Phantom. For many of these young people, comic books are their introduction to art and narrative. Along with illustrated storybooks, a comic book is often the first form of storytelling that many children encounter. More tellingly, a comic book is usually the first book that they themselves seek out and purchase with their pocket money. The power that simple artwork, coupled with a compelling storyline can convey cannot be underestimated and it seems that obsessions developed during childhood are always the deepest and longest lasting. Later life obsessions usually drop off or fade into nothing but youthful obsessions often linger, taking root in impressionable consciousness and refusing to budge. Although The Phantom is an American-produced comic, there seems to be something intrinsically Australian about it, so much so that many people to this day believe it to be an Australian creation. No doubt the source for much of this misunderstanding lies with the earlier tweaking of the storyline to insert local flavour. This began from as early as 1937 in The Australian Woman’s Mirror, when Diana Palmer was altered from her existence as a New York socialite to a “young Sydney girl” in an effort to appeal to local audiences. Mention of money was changed to reflect local currency and local publisher Frew publications, which has published The Phantom in Australia since 1948 made the Phantom a ubiquitous character in many Australian homes. The impact of The Phantom here can also be measured by how it has crossed over into other Australian popular culture mediums. Paul Hogan parodied one of the biggest developments in Phantom history when he mined the routine of postmatrimonial life between the Phantom and Diana Palmer for laughs on his popular television show. A Ramones influenced Sydney rock and roll band named the Eastern Dark existed in the 80s and it also came as no surprise when a feature length movie of The Phantom was made in Australia in 1998, also directed by an Australian, Simon Wincer. Even the iconic Aussie genre film Stone had a scene where one of the biker gang is more enamoured of his dog-eared Phantom comic than the purring moll vying in vain for his attention. And now the fourth Phantom exhibition. From the first one at Ray Hughes’ Brisbane gallery in 1973 to Australian Galleries in 2014, the Phantom is still going strong. With more than 40 artists, curated by Peter Kingston and Dietmar Lederwasch, contributing their various interpretations of the “Ghost Who Walks”, it proves that those obsessions with The Phantom that developed during childhood are indeed hard to shake. This is an edited extract from the catalogue for The Phantom Show, at Australian Galleries, Sydney, from December 9 to December 21. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/ghost-who-walks-inspires-a-modern-generation-of-artists/story-fn9d3avm-1227137530283

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Robert Wilson McCoy (April 6, 1902 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; July 20, 1961) was an American illustrator and painter best known as the second artist on the (still running) The Phantom comic strip. He always went by his middle name and signed The Phantom as Wilson McCoy, but his other artwork was signed R. Wilson McCoy. Born one of seven children in Troy, Missouri, he developed a unique, naive style of drawing. He always drew with attention to details, and he used photographic references for every drawing, having his family and friends pose for him and act out the different situations happening in the stories he worked on. Like Phantom creator Lee Falk, McCoy was a world traveler with an adventurous spirit, traveling to jungles, where he visited native tribes, including the Ituri tribe of pygmies, much like the Bandar tribe in The Phantom. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_McCoy Wilson McCoy in the Grand Comics Database: http://www.comics.org/search/advanced/process/?target=issue_cover&method=icontains&logic=True&order 1=date&order2=series&pencils=Wilson+McCoy

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The hugely successful line of Pop Vinyl collectible figures from Funko has featured figures of everyone from movie starts to sports heroes, from Elvis Presley to Howard the Duck. Well, finally, the Ghost Who Walks is getting the Pop treatment, and the figure is available for pre-order now! Due out in August this year, the Phantom Pop can be pre-ordered now from PopCultcha for $16.99AU. It would be a good idea to preorder if this is something you’re interested in as the Funko Pops have a large following of collectors in their own right so you won’t only have Phantom phans to contend with. Also, Funky tends to retire their Pop figures after a time so it’s worth getting in and grabbing these while you can. While there aren’t any images of the figure available above the one we’ve included at the top of the post, if you are unfamiliar with Pop Vinyls you can be safe in the knowledge that they are all very well sculpted and of a high quality. Needless to say though, we’ll give you our full opinions on the figure on X-Band once it’s released! http://chroniclechamber.com/CC2015/2015/04/the-phantom-finally-goes-pop/

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New! Mandrake the Magician #1 from Dynamite Entertainment Featured Dynamite Entertainment is proud to announce the January 2015 launch of King, an epic comic book event that marks the 100th anniversary of King Features Syndicate. The celebratory event will bring historyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous comic strip heroes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Prince Valiant, The Phantom, and Jungle Jim, to comic books with five miniseries that build to a grand crossover in May. Helmed by top-tier talent and rising stars of the comic book industry, each launch issue of the King event features an interlocking cover by acclaimed artist Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier, Catwoman).The creative team behind Mandrake the Magician is Eisner-Award Winner Roger Langridge with artist Jeremy Treece.

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Mandrake The Magician (1934) by elfantasmo

One of the biggest news paper comic strip superheroes! Originally published in black and white, he later got a more VISITORS REGISTER traditional comic book treatment, published on vertical pages in color for newspapers magazines and later on his own comic books. He had a huge following worldwide; he was popular here in latin america (there are some popular sayings with his name even!). My mom was a huge Mandrake fan when she was a kid; she told me that she even tried to run on the walls like him! I knew the character in the 80s thanks to the Defenders of The Earth animated series, but since he has faded from pop culture, with the comic strip ending his long publication run and film projects stuck in development hell for more than a decade... After all these years he has not changed much in his design... well, tuxedos have not changed in a century actually! So not much to redesign, just a little bit muted colors for this one.

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By Valued Member Howard Lee Journey to Star Wars The Force Awakens Shattered Empire #2 For the first time in the new Star Wars canon, journey with us into the time after the end of Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka (PUNISHER, WOLVERINE, Gotham Central) and artist Marco Checchetto (AVENGERS WORLD, PUNISHER) take us past the destruction of the second Death Star into the chaos of a Shattered Empire TO BUY NOW CLICK LINK BELOW

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Mandrake the Magician: The Hidden Kingdom of Murderers The Sundays 1935-1937 Hardcover â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2012

From the very beginning in 1934, these are the original adventures of the famous comic strip detective - collected in full for the very first time! Mandrake is a master of hypnosis, whose ability causes his opponents to encounter wild illusions, giving the heroes the upper hand in a fight. His enemies cover a broad spectrum, including gangsters, mad scientists, alien creatures, and characters from other adventures. His greatest ally is Lothar, "Prince of the Seven Nations" who gave up his crown to join Mandrake in his globe-trotting adventures. They are accompanied by the beautiful Narda, princess of a European nation and Mandrake's romantic interest. Mandrake's exploits are among the most stunning and exciting in the realm of comic strips.

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Another year has passed And we're all a little older. Last summer felt hotter And winter seems much colder. There was a time not long ago When life was quite a blast. Now I fully understand About 'Living in the Past' We used to go to weddings, Football games and lunches.. Now we go to funeral homes And after-funeral brunches. We used to have hangovers, From parties that were gay. Now we suffer body aches And wile the night away. We used to go out dining, And couldn't get our fill. Now we ask for doggie bags, Come home and take a pill. We used to often travel To places near and far. Now we get sore asses From riding in the car. We used to go to nightclubs And drink a little booze. Now we stay home at night And watch the evening news. That, my friend is how life is, And now my tale is told. So, enjoy each day and live it up... Before you're too damned old!

Hermes’ #3 Aussie Variant Hermes Press’ Phantom #3 has gone to press and should be in our hot little hands within the next 2 weeks. We are very excited to announce that the Aussie variant cover for this issue will be by Lindsay Walker. Melbourne artist Lindsay, wellknown to Phantom phans for her Moonstone work, has produced a stunning rendition of our hero. We’ll also have some images of the exclusive Sal Velluto variant covers available to show you very soon. Stay tuned! www.phantomsvault.com.au

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THE PHANTOM - The Heart of Darkness (Egmont)

The Seal of Approval, once prominently displayed on comic book covers, quietly disappeared in 2011. For nearly 60 years, however, censors funded by the comic book industry enforced rules about acceptable content. Only comics that passed a prepublication review carried the seal. Designed to resemble a stamp, the seal bore the words “Approved by the Comics Code Authority,” which was the regulatory arm of the Comics Magazine Association of America. The trade association’s Comics Code Authority and its Seal of Approval were the publishers’ answer to their critics. Comic Book Critics Controversy over comic books surfaced shortly their debut in the 1930s. The first group to object to comics was educators, who saw comics as a bad influence on students’ reading abilities and literary tastes. They filled professional journals with suggestions on how to wean their pupils from superhero tales. Comic books also represented a threat to their authority – for the first time, children could select their own leisure reading material.

Church and civic groups added their members’ voices to protests. They objected to “immoral” content such as scantily clad women in jungle comics and the glorification of villains in crime comics. The Catholic Church’s National Office of Decent Literature added comics to the materials it evaluated. In postwar America, a new focus on juvenile delinquency drew a third group into the debate over the effects of comics – mental health experts. Among them was Dr. Fredric Wertham, a noted New York City psychiatrist, who campaigned to ban the sales of comics to children. He argued that children imitated the actions of comic book characters and that the content desensitized children to violence. Seduction of the Innocent Wertham is often ridiculed as a failed social scientist whose studies of the effects of comics lack credibility, but that is an unfair characterization. His case against comics is actually built on his practice of social psychiatry, which examines social and cultural influences on behavior, including popular culture. However, in articles for popular magazines written by and about Wertham, the underpinnings of his work were left out in favor of anecdotes that Wertham realized would resonate more with the audience.

The best-known of the comic book critics, he advocated for comic book legislation by presenting his work in professional venues, by testifying at legislative hearings, and by publicizing his views in popular media. His efforts focused national attention on comics but resulted in no legislation. Discouraged, he wrote a book he hoped would raise public awareness about comics. He published Seduction of the Innocent in spring 1954. Wertham’s renewed attack on comic books prompted the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency to begin its investigation of the effects of mass media with the comic book industry. Senators staged hearings in New York City on April 21-22 and June 4, 1954, calling a number of witnesses to testify. EC Comics Under Attack Among those testifying was William Gaines, publisher of EC Comics. Sen. Estes Kefauver badgered him into saying a Johnny Craig cover featuring a severed head and a bloody ax, from Crime Suspenstories, was in “good taste” for a horror comic. Gaines’ comments provided a front-page story for the New York Times: “No Harm in Horror” trumpeted the headline. Although he could not have known it at the time, the hearings marked the beginning of the end for Gaines’ comic book company. The publisher tried to rally the industry to defend itself, but the others were looking for a quick solution to a problem that threatened their business. In October 1954, publishers formed the Comics Magazine Association of America and adopted a regulatory code. Disgusted with the direction events had taken, Gaines initially refused to join the CMAA and submit his comics for review. Wholesalers, however, only handled code-approved comics (with the exception of Dell Comics and Classics Illustrated), so Gaines capitulated. His relationship with his fellow publishers was short-lived. At least three versions of the story about Gaines’ dispute with the CMAA exist. In an interview, Gaines said a story showing a black astronaut with sweat on his face was rejected because the code forbid ridicule of any religion or race. When he threatened to sue, the code administrator backed down. A second version of the story suggests that Gaines was not able to get approval for the comic, but printed it with the seal anyway. A third account, told by Gaines’ business manager, said the EC story was rejected because it featured robots, which challenged Code Administrator Charles Murphy’s religious beliefs that only man was granted the ability to think. Whatever the real story is, the fact remains that Gaines resigned from the CMAA on Oct. 25, 1955. He folded his comic book business and started Mad magazine, which was not subject to the Comics Code Authority. Whiles Gaines is the best-known casualty of the code, several other comic book companies also folded in the 1950s due in part to code restrictions, although with less fanfare. To be fair, however, other factors depressed the comic book market, including distribution woes and the loss of the reading audience to television. The Comic Censors’ Bible The Comics Code, the bible of comic book censors, went far beyond addressing concerns about crime and horror comics to implement broad regulations that addressed what CMAA President John Goldwater, of Archie Comics, identified as “problem areas.” The 41 provisions purged sex, violence and any other content not in keeping with critics’ standards. Respect for government and parental authority was stressed, and censors even became the grammar police, eliminating slang and colloquialisms. Comics books received the Seal of Approval only if they were suitable for the youngest readers. As the controversy over comics died down, the Seal of Approval became less prominent on comic book covers. The enforcement of code provisions, however, continued to restrict the potential of the medium. Nothing inherent in the form of comics prevents comic books from telling stories for different audiences, but the perception of comic books as juvenile literature was reinforced by the Comics Code. Spider-Man to the Rescue Stan Lee has often told the tale of how Marvel Comics defied the Comics Code Authority, publishing the Spider-Man story arc about drug abuse. According to CMAA files, Marvel had asked for permission to publish the special issues but was denied. The request, however, triggered a review of the code. Revisions were crafted in December 1970, and publishers agreed the new code would go into effect on Feb. 1, 1971. A special meeting of the CMAA was called on that date to chastise Marvel. Charles Goodman, representing the company, promised that after publication of the Spider-Man issues (cover-dated May-July 1971), the company would not publish any comics without obtaining the Seal of Approval. The 1971 code relaxed the restrictions on crime comics and lifted the ban on horror comics (while still prohibiting the use of “horror” and “terror” in titles). In addition, the liberalized standards on sex reflected changes in society. After the Spider-Man controversy, the CMAA added a section on how to handle depiction of drug use. The code, although it was less restrictive, represented a lost opportunity in its reaffirmation of comic books as a medium for children. Bypassing the Code Only four publishers remained active in the CMAA during the late 1970s and the 1980s – Archie, Marvel, Harvey, and DC. However, a major change in comic book distribution made it possible for publishers to sell comics without the Seal of Approval. That change was direct market distribution. Under the old system, still in place, wholesalers deliver comics to retailers along with other magazines. These wholesalers served as the enforcement arm of the Comics Code Authority by agreeing to handle only those comics with the seal. With direct market distribution, distributors who specialize in comic books solicit orders and distribute directly to retail outlets. Distributors and retailers willing to handle comics without the Seal of Approval opened the door for publishers who sought to bypass the CMAA and its censors. Freed from code constraints, new publishers experimented with material – including adult-oriented comics – in order to expand the audience. The Comics Code: 1989 Changes in distribution and the resulting rise of the so-called “independent” publishers (plus the fact that the CMAA was almost out of copies of the 1971 code) led to a push in 1982 for another revision. A draft written by a consultant hired by the CMAA was rejected. Gladstone, which published Disney comics, and Archie favored retaining the 1971 code. Marvel, too, indicated a willingness to continue under the old code. Harvey wanted a new code but warned against any “meaningless liberalization.” However, DC indicated it was considering eliminating the Seal of Approval from its books, arguing the 1971 code was an embarrassment and a hindrance to the creative talent of artists and writers. As a result, the CMAA drafted a two-part document that met DC’s demands for broad guidelines. The “Principles of the Comics Code Authority” contained general statements about violence, language and other areas of concern. The second part, “Editorial Guidelines,” listed specific rules for each of the content areas. The CMAA forbid the release of this internal document to the public. Comic Book Regulation Today The impact of the 1989 code eroded as comic books disappeared from the shelves of general retailers. Comic book specialty stores willingly carried comics without the Seal of Approval, and even members of the CMAA created imprints for the direct market, bypassing the review process. Marvel struck a major blow to the viability of the CMAA’s self-regulatory code in 2001 when it withdrew from the Comics Code Authority in favor of an in-house rating system. By 2011, only two publishers printed the Seal of Approval on the cover of their comics, Archie and DC. DC comics announced in January 2011 it was dropping the Seal of Approval, and Archie soon followed. Today, publishers regulate the content of their own comics. The demise of the Comics Code Authority and its symbol, the Seal of Approval, marks elimination of industry-wide self-regulation, against which there is little legal recourse. Now, the comic book community can answer its critics by invoking its First Amendment rights, assisted by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, whose mission is to protect those rights through legal referrals, representation, advice, assistance, and education.

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Sy Barry design from the famous story of the 1st Phantom. Stands 160mm high and cast in polystone with a bronzedlook finish. Limited edition of 25 only! Due to the cost and fragility of this item, we cannot trust this to the ravages of Australia Post, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re insisting on pick up.

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