Man Who Vowed to Kill the Kill-Joys: Fiction House's John W. Glenister

The Fiction House story can't be told without distribution pioneer, anti-Prohibition activist, and champion swimmer John W. Glenister.
Glenister would become a noteworthy anti-Prohibition activist during this period, while also taking seriously the threat of film industry censorship that was developing at this time as well. And this was after he had become a major force in the development of the Independent Distribution system in the United States, a respected magazine executive, and a nationally famous athlete. While John W. Glenister died at the age of 63 on October 14, 1937 — less than a year before the fiction magazine publishing company he founded with John B. Kelly entered the comic book business — his larger-than-life sensibilities would remain thoroughly embedded in Fiction House for that company's lifespan. The Fiction House story can't be told without discussing the early career of #JohnWGlenister.

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Way back in the 1950s, there were people in America banning books and censoring comic books to keep children safe. That was what life was like in the middle of the last century. 🧐

Very Objectionable: Supernatural & "Sexy Implications" of Ghost Comics

Early 1950s Fiction House series Ghost Comics rivals even EC Comics for horror, suspense, and adult situations in the pre-Code comics era.

In June 1953, an organization calling itself The Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books, which claimed to have 84 "trained reviewers", evaluated 418 comic book titles which were then available on the newsstands of America. These reviewers placed the output of American comic book publishers into one of four categories: no objection, some objection, objectionable, and very objectionable. This evaluation subsequently became a part of the 1954 Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency during the mid-1950s moral panic against comic books.

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Retro Futuristic Space Comics of the 1950s and 60s

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