Talk:List of comics magazines published by Magazine Management in the 1970s

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Clarification[edit]

Explain why you don't think this is accurate information please: [previous edit on page]. Were some titles originally comic books who then got turned into a magazine at the time they adopted the comics code? Is there any doubt they did this to get around the code? -- Dream Focus 04:07, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dream. No problem. The passage read "When Marvel Comics adopted the Comics Code Authority, some of their titles were no longer allowed, and others had to undergo changes. Instead of canceling these series, they simply moved them to the magazine format, and thus got around the code. Many of these magazines did not carry the Marvel name anywhere on them, but still featured characters regularly found in Marvel comic books. Any new series that the comics code wouldn't allow in comic books, was released in magazine format instead."

Marvel (then Atlas Comics) adopted the Comics Code in 1954; these magazines did not appear until the 1970s, so the Comics Code issue is unrelated and irrelevant. RE "some of their titles were no longer allowed": Marvel/Atlas didn't drop any titles when it adopted the Comics Code seal, so there were no disallowed titles. RE "others had to undergo changes": Yes, in 1954, not the 1970s. Marvel/Atlas in the 1950s did not do like Mad magazine and convert any titles from comic book to magazine format. The sentence about not using the Marvel name stayed. As for the last sentence, it wasn't a matter of series being disallowed by the code, it was a matter of content. "Sons of the Tiger" and "Conan the Barbarian" were series that appeared in both comic books and magazines. Hope this helps clarify! --Tenebrae (talk) 12:33, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]