University of Nebraska Library posts comic collection online.

[Aaron King]

The UNL put up a bunch of comics in their library in PDF format. There are nearly 200 entries in full PDF. I haven't had a chance to fully browse them, but there's some Milton Caniff and some of Eisner's instructional comics from the Army. Here's the link. (http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/comics&CISOSTART=1,1)

[InfoBroker]

Nice find Aaron. I've been browsing through several various items, including material that was distributed when I was in elementary school.

My comical book historical curiosity loves this kind of stuff.

-jb the ib -

[PCPaperbacks]

I liked this one...
Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency. Interim Report. 1955.

http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/comics&CISOPTR=209&CISOBOX=1&REC=2

[InfoBroker]

I've seen some of that material posted online, and it is great to have it intact, complete and to see it in its original form. The section on distribution has some detailed insight into how "Marvel Comics Group" as a business unit, was organized as an advertising tool within all those crazy publishing branches that Martin Goodman orchestrated under the wider Atlas banner.

It is also interesting to see the state level reports, like the one they have for Colorado. Haven't seen this one before.

-jb the "now totally distracted from work" ib -

[PCPaperbacks]

Here is another one from 1956:

Restrictions Upon Comic Books. Report Pursuant to Proposal 437, sponsored by Representative Ralph T. Smith.


http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/comics&CISOPTR=131&CISOBOX=1&REC=4

[InfoBroker]

That is an interesting one in that it was published a few years after the other highly publicized reports. Some direct from the times commentary on the shifted content, and reduce circulation of comical books.

note to self:

Must research Phillippe Bauchard and his book The Child Audience (1952).

-jb the ib-