CBLDF Announces Corporate Fund In an announcement through PWCW, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Executive Director Charles Brownstein made public a corporate membership effort through which companies, as opposed to individuals, can directly contribute via a membership basis to the Fund's activities. Initial members are DC Comics, Quebecor, Wizard, Diamond Comics Distribution and Dark Horse Books. Each contributed $5000. The CBLDF works in a variety of ways to protect First Amendment rights for members of the comics industry.