Mainline Publications (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mainline Publications was a short-lived, 1950s American comic book publisher established and owned by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon.With the 1950s backlash against comics, led by the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, and propagated during the televised debates about comics leading to juvenile delinquency, as part of the Kefauver hearings, several publishing houses folded. This caused a problem for the printers, as detailed by Joe Simon: {{bquote-Comic book publishers were dropping out of the business in wholesale numbers. The printers grew frantic. It was a necessity of their business that the presses keep running. When the presses were silent, printing companies still had to pay overhead, so they were more than willing to back a new comics organization if it showed promise.