Posted: 3/27/2020
Today I will be talking about the most recently displayed exhibit. It talks about a currently loved topic… Comics! From how they made the guidelines for them throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. If you have a love from childhood of anything DC or Marvel, you will love seeing this exhibit once we open back up to the public!
In this exhibit, a focused point is the comic book code and the history of how that changed. The Comics Magazines Association of America, Inc. was established in 1954 to allow comic books to have their regulations. Throughout this section of the exhibit, it discusses how the regulations had also changed because of different parts of modern history, such as wars happening and when mature topics such as abuse and unfortunate ethnic stereotypes were coming to light.
Yet in the end, many can agree that these comic books have been great ways to escape and wonder what our world would be like if there were people with superpowers or super abilities. It shows you how comics, from well-known ones such as Spider-Man and Iron Man to the less known ones, you see how comic books have evolved since the 1950s.
Another part about this exhibit that many will enjoy is the movie props from recent Marvel and DC movies. We have at this exhibit props from the second Iron Man movie and some of the X-Men movies as well. In the movie section about comics, you will see a mask used in one of the X-Men movies that came out in 2000. There is also an Iron Man movie poster!
If you are like me and have been a fan of the Marvel Movies, you will greatly enjoy this part of the exhibit. Taking comic books to a new level in modern history, and teenagers, along with the young at heart, have been loving it. Check out this three-page pdf that shows an early version of the Code that will show how the rules for comics have changed or stayed the same. This version of the Code came out in 1955, and list in number format the regulations.
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