5. Context for understanding Stuart is the intersection of low brow pulp publishing, porn, modernism and anti-censorship politics.
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6. Stuart - a merchant marine, a casino owner & occasional pro gambler, a tabloid journalist - brought to publishing a roughneck sensibility
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7. In 1950s, Stuart was business manager to EC Comics and Bill Gaines, publisher of MAD, then embroiled in censorship controversy.
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8. Because of horror comics Gaines published, EC was flashpoint for anti-comics censorship campaign.
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9. As adviser to Gaines, Stuart encouraged the reckless policy (which Gaines inclined to anyway) of not no apology, no self-censorship.
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10. The anti-comics crusade rarely linked to later 1950s/1960s censorship cases (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naked Lunch, Lenny Bruce etc.)
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11. But Stuart's connection to EC comics shows that early 1950s comics battle prefigured later censorship struggles over literature.
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12. To understand Stuart, you have to see him as part of cohort that included Lenny Bruce, Barney Rosset, Maurice Girodias, Al Goldstein etc
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13. Other members of this cohort: Hugh Hefner, of course, and Larry Flynt.
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14. What united this cohort was they combined extreme mercenary commercial interests with fearless anti-censorship stance.
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15. I mean, even the most high-minded in the cohort (Rosset & Girodias) were hustlers who published pure trash as well as literature.
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16. Stuart really was committed to the idea of publishing stuff as far outside the boundaries as possible -- i.e The Turner Diaries.
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17. Amid the porn and incendiary terrorist stuff, Stuart also published some valuable books.
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