Abstract
Soon after the first regularly published newsstand comic book went on sale in 1934, and especially by 1938 with the arrival of Superman in Action Comics #1, comic books were established as a distinctly separate entertainment medium from newspaper comic strips. To boost circulation, some titles introduced liberal amounts of sex and gore, and this caught the eye of parents, teachers, and librarians. Comic books were widely disapproved of for many years, and any library actively collecting them would have had angry parents to deal with. Possibly as a result of this general disapproval, New Serial Titles excluded comic books by policy from the beginning, a policy not reversed until 1979. In addition, the Library of Congress has never provided cataloging for comic books, which may have discouraged librarians from keeping what they had acquired. To make a sad story even longer, comic‐book distribution was almost entirely on the newsstand and not through subscription nor the book‐trade channels that librarians n...
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