Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Petition to bring back Go-Go Checks!

Yep!

Q: Do they even carry the Comics Code stamp anymore. I can't recall

The Legion logo would look nice up there in place of the stamp.

They don't carry it anymore. I redid one (with a change to the verbiage) to keep the retro look. I'd love to use the new logo but I don't have a good one. I've asked Barry if he's got one available but he's too busy.

I actually like the way Gary asked for. Retro without being too much.

And I think the logo will change too. Color not style.

This is my favorite. I actually like the new logo now.

Thanks. I think.

So it's official now?

A history of the go-go checks, excerpt from: http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_07_02.html#010040

At some point, an explanation began to emerge for the ghastly sales trends. Obviously, it went, readers were getting confused and were buying non-DC books thinking they were DCs. It was decided that something had to be done to make their covers more distinctive and identifiable. Editorial Director Irwin Donenfeld would later receive the credit/blame (pick one) for adorning DC's covers with a hideous checkerboard pattern across the top. They called them, I'm afraid, "go-go checks" and it was the ugliest thing anyone had done to comics since Dr. Wertham called them "blueprints for delinquency."

No, they didn't help sales. Matter of fact, DC's slide hastened...and while there were certainly other reasons for that, it was suggested that the go-go checks had made things worse. "Readers could now spot the DC books much quicker, making it easier to avoid purchasing them," was how Sekowsky put it. After eighteen months, they got rid of the checks and not long after, they got rid of Irwin Donenfeld, which was quite a firing since his father had founded the company. So I guess you could say that "go-go checks" across the top of a cover was a pretty awful idea...

(Well! I still like them. - FC)

Hellcat!

The Case of the Missing Go-Go Checks!

My Mom's floor reminds me of Silver-Age DC Comics!

Ah, Peter and Gordon.

The Beatles have a lot to answer for.

There's no time limit for petitions is there?

Donenfeld was way ahead of his time. The Go Go checks would always stand out form the boxes of back issues decades later, making them even more irresistible to pick up. Donenfeld clearly added the checks in anticipation of the surge of specialist comics shops, and browsing back issue shoppers.