The Historic Legacy of Columbia s Big Shot Comics, Up for Auction
The Historic Legacy of Columbia s Big Shot Comics, Up for Auction
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During the boom years of 1939 and the early 1940s of the Golden Age of American comic books, most new entrants in the field naturally had little or no experience in comics publishing. Such was not the case for Columbia Comics Corporation, which entered the field in April 1940 with
Big Shot Comics #1, a series debut that had an impressive array of creative talent behind it. Columbia had brought in foundational DC Comics editor/creator
Vin Sullivan as their editor. By some accounts, it was Sullivan who had acquired
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Thrasher did agree to a recommendation to create “a high-profile acknowledgement of the contributions on the part of Black and other underrepresented minority student athletes at the stadium.”
He s asking Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics David Coburn to begin talks with FSU constituent groups, ”including but not limited to the FSU National Black Alumni, Inc. and the Black Student Union.”
Based on new recommendations, Thrasher:
Directed the Office of Human Resources and Division of Student Affairs to incorporate equity, diversity and inclusion training into employee onboarding and new student orientation programming.
Direct the Office of the Provost to continue to identify needs and available resources to greatly increase the diversity of the applicant pool for the university’s honors and other scholarship programs.
Campbell served as president 1941-57, when segregation was the ruling culture in Florida politics and at its public universities.
During last Wednesday’s meeting, Jones introduced a new recommendation, again supporting keeping Campbell’s name on the stadium, but also including public recognition of Black and other minority athletes and their contributions to the success of FSU football.
During the meeting, it was explained that last month’s vote objecting to keeping the name was not formally recommended for advancement to the full board for a vote, therefore making it moot.
Jones said her revised recommendation, which recommended keeping Campbell s name, was based on following a set of principles agreed upon in 2018 by the former President’s Advisory Panel on University Namings and Recognitions.