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Banning Comics: It’s 1948 Again

Posted on November 27, 2021November 27, 2021Author CarolPosted in Uncategorized

I am a former high school librarian. For more than twenty years I have taught graduate students who plan to work with young people in public and school libraries. I am also a historian who studies the intersection of comics, young readers, and libraries in the US during the mid-20th century. Unsurprisingly the recent surge…

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Jane Krom Grammer: A Golden-Age Comic Book Artist Finally Receives Credit for Her Work

Posted on June 9, 2019November 27, 2021Author CarolPosted in Uncategorized9 Replies

When Barrie Schindler was young, her mother Jane Krom Grammer mentioned to her that she had drawn art for comic books. Jane kept a package filled with several issues of Supersnipe Comics from the mid-1940s and pointed to the Dotty stories in them. But Jane’s name didn’t appear anywhere on the art and there were…

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Fresh Insights

  • Banning Comics: It’s 1948 Again
  • A Look at DC’s Executive Compensation c. 1968
  • Jane Krom Grammer: A Golden-Age Comic Book Artist Finally Receives Credit for Her Work
  • A Snapshot of Mid-1970s Comic Book Sales
  • Unbalanced Production: The Comics Business in the 1940s

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