{"id":1976,"date":"2011-02-08T22:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2011-03-03T22:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:52:41","slug":"when-the-comics-code-still-mattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/08\/when-the-comics-code-still-mattered\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Comics Code still mattered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re all celebrating the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/scottedelman.livejournal.com\/205131.html\">the Comics Code is dead<\/a>, here&#8217;s a document that takes me back to when it was very much alive. Let&#8217;s  see how different things used to be, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Among the many facts we&#8217;re told by a  July 20, 1976 newsletter put out by the Comics Magazine Association of America is that &#8220;there are now only about 400 wholesalers (against more than 700 not that long ago).&#8221; Horrors!<\/p>\n<p>What else was new? &#8220;Veteran artist Joe Kubert has opened a school of Cartoon and Graphic Art, to train artists for comics, featuring a two-year course.&#8221; Wonder how that worked out?<\/p>\n<p>Plus, &#8220;<i>Publishers Weekly<\/i> reports that sales of books in the first quarter of 1976 were better than in the first quarter of 1975.&#8221; (What? No info on  how ebooks did during those years?)<\/p>\n<p>Check out the whole thing below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComicsCode.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComicsCode-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ComicsCode\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComicsCode-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComicsCode-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ComicsCode.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re all celebrating the fact that the Comics Code is dead, here&#8217;s a document that takes me back to when it was very much alive. Let&#8217;s see how different things used to be, shall we? Among the many facts we&#8217;re told by a July 20, 1976 newsletter put out by the Comics Magazine Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,25,26],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-comics-code","tag-publishers-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}