![]() The CBCA recognizes that members are obligated to conduct business in accordance with local, state/provincial and federal laws. Members should not act so as to bring reproach or discredit to the CBCA, or impair the prestige of the membership therein. Members must share in the responsibility of furthering mutual trust and respect between the hobby and the public by conducting their comic book and comic-related business with fairness and integrity. In general, CBCA members are expected to exercise common sense and courtesy in dealing with each other and with the general public. Members of the CBCA are required to adhere to the following Code of Ethics: The mission of the CBCA is to promote the comic book art form and hobby of comic book collecting for people of all ages by encouraging fellowship among comic book enthusiasts, providing information and education to the public, and helping to facilitate the buying, selling, and trading of comic books and related material in an environment of trustworthiness and integrity. The Comic Book Collecting Association (CBCA) is a non-profit international organization made up of comic book enthusiasts who share an appreciation for the history, artistic merit, and significance of the comic book medium as an important element of popular culture. The official mission statement of the Comic Book Collecting Association is as follows The organization currently has membership in the United States and in several other countries. The CBCA was publicly announced on Februon several prominent comic book-related websites and publications. As a result, the Network of Disclosure ceased to exist and the Comic Book Collecting Association was created. The members of NOD voted on Decemto change the name and mission statement of the organization to reflect the much broader goal of promoting education, fellowship, and ethics within the hobby. The Network of Disclosure was a group whose members pledged to disclose any restoration or enhancement on comic books that they sold. The Comic Book Collecting Association was created in December 2009 by the members of another organization, now defunct, the Network of Disclosure (NOD). 4 Current and Past Directors and Officers.As for that kind of coverage, says Widener, “We were blown away. “Comic book companies and characters have lived and died at the hands of lawyers and court decisions,” Zaid notes, underscoring that the exhibit shows not only the workings of the law in the lives of superheroes, but “how comic books and their titles have been trademarked and copyrighted, as well as litigated.”Īccording to Widener, the exhibit has attracted a diverse group of visitors, including a reporter from the New York Times, whose article on the “quirky” exhibit appeared in the newspaper in September. The result is “Superheroes in Court! Lawyers, Law and Comic Books,” an exhibit based on Zaid’s collection that launched in September and remains on display through mid-December in the library’s rare book gallery. “It took me all of perhaps three seconds, if that, to respond in the affirmative,” he says. ![]() Zaid responded, if not faster than a speeding bullet, then certainly more swiftly than lawyers are wont to. Widener contacted Zaid and asked him if he’d be willing to curate an exhibit for the Yale Law Library. He is also a noted collector of vintage comic books who maintains a Web site, devoted toīuying and selling high grade comics (those from the so-called Platinum, Golden, Atom, and Silver ages, from the 1930s through Zaid is not only a “Super Lawyer,” whose Washington, D.C., practice in the areas of national security, intelligence gathering, and secrecy policies has earned him that coveted title from Super Lawyers magazine. “Mark’s name was the one that kept coming up,” says Widener. When he started making inquiries, one thing was clear: designing a comic book exhibit was a job for Mark Zaid ’89. He started thinking about comic book superheroes and villains, stark caricatures of good and evil, or in one superhero’s case, of truth, justice, and the American way. In the summer of 2009, Mike Widener, a rare book librarian at Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library, was contemplating a new exhibit on law and popular culture. SUPER EXHIBIT: Lawyer and collector Zaid curated the “Superheroes in Court!” exhibition at Yale’s law library, drawing on his own collection of materials from the so-called Platinum, Golden, Atom, and Silver ages of vintage comic books (the 1930s through the mid-1960s.) (Photo: Courtesy of Mark Zaid ’89)
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