DCML digest, Vol 1 #1264 - 13 msgs

[Gary Leach]

Timo:

> And WHY postal officers dictated the insides of comic magazines (any 
> requirements for other types of mags?)?? And how they were able even 
> to do it?
> How this effected to other comic books? I know Barks had to made 
> changes to some of his stories.

The post office issues and regulates second class mailing permits, 
which enables magazine publishers to get the cheapest available postage 
rates for mailing out subscription copies. Over the decades, the post 
office has come up with (and suspended) various rules governing the 
ability to get and use such permits. I can't say why this authority was 
allowed to extend to dictating the precise nature of the contents of 
certain magazines, but that allowance has been long-standing, and 
includes the requirement by publishers to print the periodic - and to 
readers, often mystifying - "Statement of Ownership" in each magazine 
they send out by second class mail.

(To be honest, the post office changes its regulations so often that 
"Statements of Ownership" may no longer be required, but they were 
during the Gladstone days.)

Gary