DC Comics cancels plans to reprint Monster Society of Evil storyline

This is terribly disappointing news: A hardcover reprint of the famed "Monster Society of Evil" storyline from the 1940s Captain Marvel series has been promised for months now, but it's been canceled.

Evidently the cancellation is due to DC's worries about how the unpleasant ethnic stereotyping present in these comics might go over with today's audience.

While I wince at the way minorities were too often portrayed in pop culture back then, I also believe historically important comics such as this one should be available in accessible, reprinted form. Readers are intelligent enough to understand that what was accepted then is no longer appropriate today.

Maybe if enough folks write to DC they'll change their minds?

For anyone not familiar with the MSE storyline, read Roy Thomas' great Alter Ego piece about it here.

And, if you have the bucks, you may be able to track down the British reprint of MSE that came out in 1989.

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