Dr. Amy Kiste Nyberg
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Seal Of Approval: The History Of The Comics Code
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The Bibliography Of The 1998 Study Of Comics Censorship By DR. AMY KISTE NYBERG
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: In A/E #136, we concluded our multi-issue reprinting of the main text of Dr. Amy K. Nyberg’s book Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code, originally published in 1998 by the University Press of Mississippi (in trade paperback form, and still available from them at www.upress.sate.ms.us). Our re-publication was spread over A/E #123-128, 130, & 133-136. Once again we wish to thank Dr. Nyberg— and Dr. M. Thomas Inge, under whose general editorship the work first saw print and who was of crucial help to us in securing permission to present it in Alter Ego. Our thanks, also, to William Biggins and Vijah Shah, acquisitions editors past and present of the UPM… and to Brian K. Morris for a typing assist. Because Seal of Approval is extensively footnoted (in the Modern Library Association style), we wanted to finish by reprinting Dr. Nyberg’s bibliography, as well, since the book would not be complete without it… nor would any reader be able to check her original sources for his/her own enlightenment or research. Naturally, we’ve thrown in a few art spots (and our own captions) along the way to illustrate the history of comics censorship, the Comics Magazine Association of America, and the Comics Code Authority….
References Abelson, Nathan. “Comics Are a Serious Business.” Advertising and Selling, July 1946, 41. ____. “Comics Are a Serious Business; Part II of a Study of Comic Magazines.” Advertising and Selling, Aug. 1946, 80-92. Adams v. Hinkle, 332 P.2d 844 (1958). Aldrich, Julian C. “Comics Are a Serious Business.” Scholastic, 10-15 Nov. 1941, T-1. American Civil Liberties Union. “Censorship of Comic Books: A Statement.” New York, NY, 1955. Andrae, Thomas. “From Menace to Messiah: The Prehistory of the Superman in Science Fiction Literature.” Discourse 2 (1980): 84-111. Anttonen, Eva J. “On Behalf of Dragons.” Wilson Library Bulletin 10 (1941): 567. “Association of Comics Publishers.” Advertising and Selling, July 1947, 102.
“I Have In My Hand…” A member of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, in early 1954, holds up a “random sampling” of crime and horror comics as evidence of publishers’ pernicious perfidy. From Changing Times magazine.
Baisden, Greg. “Friendly Frank’s Wins on Appeal.” Comics Journal, Dec. 1989, 13-15. “Ban on Comics Held Unconstitutional.” Editor and Publisher, 31 Dec. 1949, 10.