Welcome to the 914th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, we learn about the Little Lulu story by the great John Stanley that was rejected from publication because it was “ugly” and “tasteless.”One of the interesting things about the Comics Code Authority is the fact that it was this fascinating mixture of totally a public relations move and a real authority over the comic book industry. Being a member of the Comics Code Authority was a totally voluntary thing, but the “voluntary” aspect of it was a bit of a misnomer, since if you were a traditional comic book publisher, and you REJECTED the Comics Code Authority, newsstands simply wouldn’t carry your comics, that’s how big of a deal the outrage over comic books had become in the mid 1950s.Obviously, the people licensing their properties to Dell would ALSO have regulations over what was approvable or not, and despite John Stanley being one of the greatest comic book minds of the 20th Century, and despite his long run working on Little Lulu, even Stanley had a comic book story rejected by the licensor for being “ugly” and “tasteless.”
Welcome to the 914th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, we learn about the Little Lulu story by the great John Stanley that was rejected from publication because it was “ugly” and “tasteless.”
One of the interesting things about the Comics Code Authority is the fact that it was this fascinating mixture of totally a public relations move and a real authority over the comic book industry. Being a member of the Comics Code Authority was a totally voluntary thing, but the “voluntary” aspect of it was a bit of a misnomer, since if you were a traditional comic book publisher, and you REJECTED the Comics Code Authority, newsstands simply wouldn’t carry your comics, that’s how big of a deal the outrage over comic books had become in the mid 1950s.
Obviously, the people licensing their properties to Dell would ALSO have regulations over what was approvable or not, and despite John Stanley being one of the greatest comic book minds of the 20th Century, and despite his long run working on Little Lulu, even Stanley had a comic book story rejected by the licensor for being “ugly” and “tasteless.”
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