Forty years ago, the comics community joined together to reverse the conviction of a comic shop manager in Illinois for selling books now considered classics. As the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund prepares for yet another trial, interim director Jeff Trexler, underground comics legend and CBLDF founder Denis Kitchen, former DC Comics publisher and CBLDF board member Paul Levitz, attorney and former CBLDF board member Louise Nemschoff, and current CBLDF board members Bob Wayne (former VP, DC Comics) and Dale Cendali (partner, Kirkland and Ellis), and others look at the cases the CBLDF has handled since its founding and the central role of comic art in making its work possible.
