{"id":7116,"date":"2011-02-22T17:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T22:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2011-02-22T17:39:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T22:39:27","slug":"william-gaines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=7116","title":{"rendered":"William Gaines"},"content":{"rendered":"

“As evidence of this, I might point out that we have the highest sales in individual distribution. I don’t mean highest sales in comparison to comics of another type. I mean highest sales in comparison to other horror comics. The magazine is one of the few remaining ? the comic magazine is one of the few remaining pleasures that a person may buy for a dime today. Pleasure is what we sell, entertainment, reading enjoyment. Entertaining reading has never harmed anyone. Men of good will, free men should be very grateful for one sentence in the statement made by Federal Judge John M. Woolsey when he lifted the ban on Ulysses. Judge Woolsey said:<\/p>\n

‘It is only with the normal person that the law is concerned.’<\/p>\n

“May I repeat, he said, “It is only with the normal person that the law is concerned.” Our American children are for the most part normal children. They are bright children, but those who want to prohibit comic magazines seem to see dirty, sneaky, perverted monsters who use the comics as a blueprint for action.<\/p>\n

“Perverted little monsters are few and far between. They don’t read comics. The chances are most of them are in schools for retarded children.<\/p>\n

“What are we afraid of? Are we afraid of our own children? Do we forget that they are citizens, too, and entitled to select what to read or do? We think our children are so evil, simple minded, that it takes a story of murder to set them to murder, a story of robbery to set them to robbery?<\/p>\n

“Jimmy Walker once remarked that he never knew a girl to be ruined by a book. Nobody has ever been ruined by a comic.”<\/p>\n

– William Gaines, Testifying before the Senate on behalf of comic books.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I cannot believe I’ve never read this before. Wow.<\/p>\n

– Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“As evidence of this, I might point out that we have the highest sales in individual distribution. I don’t mean highest sales in comparison to comics of another type. I mean highest sales in comparison to other horror comics. The magazine is one of the few remaining ? the comic magazine is one of the … <\/p>\n

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