Talk:Lev Gleason Publications

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[edit] ACMP first step to CCA?

The ACMP was the first step towards the establishment of the Comics Code Authority in 1954.

"First step" seems like POV. "First step" is true in the trival sense that the ACMP was chronologically prior to the CCA. Yet "first step" may allow uninformed readers to infer that the ACMP was an early balky model, and the CCA was the more popular working model. e.g. Vacuum containing light bulbs requiring thick glass were more expensive precursors to inert gas filled light bulbs. Same goal, balky first step, leads to better and more practical implementation later.

To the contrary, these two groups embodied distinct literary and political ideas, reflecting the competing business interests of the publishers that spearheaded them; i.e. publishers like EC and Lev Gleason for ACMP, and Archie and DC for the CCA. Most relevant to the Lev Gleason story is that the ACMP approved of Crime Comics, while the 1954 Comics Code was against even their typography:

(11) The letters of the word “crime” on a comics-magazine cover shall never be appreciably greater in dimension than the other words contained in the title. The word “crime” shall never appear alone on a cover.
(12) Restraint in the use of the word “crime” in titles or subtitles shall be exercised.

   -- http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comic_book_code_of_1954

(The ACMP drafted no clauses to ban titles containing the words 'Super' or 'Archie'.)

--AC 08:26, 16 July 2007 (UTC)