Author Archives: Jeffrey Trexler

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How Censorship Won: The Final Victory of the Comics Code

Just a few months after the Comics Code met its less than grisly fate, the U.S. Supreme Court cited the anti-comics crusade of the 1950s as an example of misguided censorship. Continue reading

 
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The Comics Code in the Phantom Zone

What is in the archives? Has the CMAA actually dissolved? Continue reading

 
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The Comics Code Revisited, Part 1

A look at the legalities surrounding the end of the Comics Magazine Association of America. Continue reading