Talk:Lev Gleason Publications

ACMP first step to CCA?

The ACMP was the first step towards the establishment of the Comics Code Authority in 1954.

"First step" seems like POV. "First step" is true in the trival sense that the ACMP was chronologically prior to the CCA. Yet "first step" may allow uninformed readers to infer that the ACMP was an early balky model, and the CCA was the more popular working model. e.g. Vacuum containing light bulbs requiring thick glass were more expensive precursors to inert gas filled light bulbs. Same goal, balky first step, leads to better and more practical implementation later.

To the contrary, these two groups embodied distinct literary and political ideas, reflecting the competing business interests of the publishers that spearheaded them; i.e. publishers like EC and Lev Gleason for ACMP, and Archie and DC for the CCA. Most relevant to the Lev Gleason story is that the ACMP approved of Crime Comics, while the 1954 Comics Code was against even their typography:

(11) The letters of the word “crime” on a comics-magazine cover shall never be appreciably greater in dimension than the other words contained in the title. The word “crime” shall never appear alone on a cover.

(12) Restraint in the use of the word “crime” in titles or subtitles shall be exercised.

   -- http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comic_book_code_of_1954

(The ACMP drafted no clauses to ban titles containing the words 'Super' or 'Archie'.)

--AC 08:26, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

revival??

So new stuff is being published under name of "Lev Gleason", but I'm not sure how to describe it.

• Lev Gleason of 1939-1956: https://www.comics.org/publisher/77/ (which includes "The Lev Gleason publishing name was revived in 2021 by the Canadian publisher formerly known as Chapterhouse.")
• Lev Gleason of 2021-onward: https://www.comics.org/publisher/15842/ (which includes "Lev Gleason, Inc. absorbed remaining IP, licences and contracts from Canadian publisher Chapterhouse Publishing" and "Revival of the publisher name, imprints, and product lines from Lev Gleason (d. 1956). US Incorporated International publisher, Offices in based in Canada and United States.")
• About webpage at https://www.levgleason.com/about (including "the new COMIC HOUSE ARCHIVES is dedicated to collecting and restoring for print publication the entirety of the Lev Gleason line of books")
• NOTE: all the comics in previewsworld.com catalog that WERE published by Chapterhouse are now listed as publisher name LEV GLEASON: https://www.previewsworld.com/Search?mode=A&Publisher=LEV%20GLEASON (they weren't published by Lev Gleason, but this probably attempt by company to encourage Chapterhouse readers to transition to buying from new Lev Gleason). --EarthFurst (talk) 18:45, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

regarding my NOTE above. Example: CAPTAIN CANUCK TP VOL 01 ALEPH (NEW ED), the publisher was listed as "CHAPTERHOUSE", but https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV171477 now lists publisher as "LEV GLEASON" (i assume the "COMIC HOUSE" part is an imprint). (Wikipedia article about Chapterhouse at Chapterhouse Comics.) --EarthFurst (talk) 19:46, 1 September 2021 (UTC)