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Julian Sanchez | June 23, 2005

Franklin Harris thanks the comic book censors for aiding in the seduction of the innocent.

Comments

|6.23.05 @ 12:50PM|#

... Mad magazine ... survived because it didn't look like a comic book, so it wasn't a target-which didn't mean children weren't reading it.

Wanna bet?

|6.23.05 @ 1:21PM|#

Gaines did try to continue publishing four-color pamphlets that conformed to the Comics Code, but they didn't sell. Mad was converted to a black and white magazine format and thrived, but two other non-humor B&W mags EC tried died on the stands.

Kevin

|6.23.05 @ 1:40PM|#

Where's my fershlugginer pastrami on rye?

Jeff|6.23.05 @ 2:03PM|#

The success of B&W mags led to the golden age of Warren Publications, which gave us horror books full of, as Alan Moore puts it, "tits and innards." The Warren books mustered up a lot of european artists before Heavy Metal appeared on the scene.
They also gave us Vamperella, a door-length poster of whom still hangs in my studio.

Franklin Harris|6.23.05 @ 3:25PM|#

Vampirella being the creation of Forrest J. Ackerman, of course.

Jeff|6.23.05 @ 3:56PM|#

True, but I believe James Warren used to get co-creator credit.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the exact moment when sentences like that send the comment thread plunging into the geek zone...

Franklin Harris|6.23.05 @ 4:24PM|#

Jeff, that's what we're here for.

Bill|6.25.05 @ 10:13PM|#

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mjke|6.25.05 @ 10:15PM|#

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