What includes turned out badly inside the business and would it be able to be settled? The assault and loot, according to
a few, may have left the comic book industry panting forever bolster. It appears that for an
industry that has seen so much achievement, the historical backdrop of comic books, has evidently been
jumbled by apparently imbecilic oversights.
The first could have exceptionally well been the begetting of the name “comic books”. The soonest forms
of the purported half-tab (for half newspaper) reprints of the Sunday funnies (the funnies) moved toward becoming
known as “funny books”. This prompted the reasoning as a rule, that comic books contained comic
or on the other hand entertaining material, which we as a whole know, is a far stretch from the real world. Comic books can be extremely
serious, dim or audacious magazines. It has regularly been proposed that there ought to be another
term begat to more readily depict this abstract bundle we as a whole know as comic books. To date, no
other client companion term has been proposed for use in the comic book industry.
A second confusion came when magazine costs began to rise. Rather than expanding comic
book costs, as other effective magazines did, the comic book industry chose to slice pages to
keep the then current sticker price of 10 pennies. This expedited the feeling that comic books
were “shabby” by definition, and ignored the way that a dime was a considerable measure of cash at one time
(steak and eggs cost 35 pennies). This displayed the picture that comic books were only for kids. It
additionally made the item progressively less reasonable for retail vendors to stock. Why take up the
same rack space, when a higher evaluated magazine would accomplish all the more pleasantly. Again the apparent
estimation of the comic book was losing validity.
At that point as the 1950s moved around, a person by the name of Dr. Frederick Wertham, distributed
a book entitled “Temptation of the Innocents”. Using informal research and
suppositions, he expressed that all the country’s ills were specifically identified with kids perusing comic books
(ok well, what?). Fundamental to his proposition, was the misassumption that comic books were entirely for
kids. The more grown-up material, it was nonsensically accepted, was gone for our sweet, guileless
blameless kids. Truly, we do need to secure our youngsters, yet despite everything it disturbs me forever, that
certain vainglorious people trust their present situation is to influence whatever remains of the planet to follow
to their very own convictions. On the off chance that this were the situation, at that point our extraordinary nation would have never been
established.
With this fiercely silly assault on the comic book industry and numerous congressional pioneers
bouncing on the temporary fad, comic books were picking up an awful notoriety. The comic book
industry distributers now, could have united together and proclaimed that comic books, as
films, were not “only for kids”. It ought to have been expressed that the extensive variety of comic book
kinds spoke to was focus to as wide a scope of perusers. Everything except one of the distributers
(William Gaines, distributer of EC Comics) clasped under to this Congressional Investigation and
the Comic Code Authority was made. This represented the substance of comic books and guaranteed
that for the following 15 years or somewhere in the vicinity, the scholarly substance would not transcend that of pablum for
the psyche. Along these lines another slide into extraordinariness for the comic book industry occurred.
Can the comic book industry be spared? Possibly, however when the people accountable for the
sparing are as energetic as ever to commit similar errors once more, what will the result be?
They don’t have all the earmarks of being blade enough to commit new errors.