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14 Ways Chelsea Cain's Man-Eaters Violates the Comics Code of 1954 [Spoilers]
To find out, we bravely read this comic, despite its overtly glittery cover, and applied the standards of the venerable Comics Code of 1954 to what we saw The results, sadly, are probably less than shocking to anyone who has been following Cain's outspoken and disruptive work. Going through the list of rules in the Comics[...]
Do You Have The Comic Code Records? Could You Check? Maybe Behind The Sofa?
The Comics Code was administered by the Comics Magazine Association of America For decades, when it came to comics, they saw everything Everything. But now? We see nothing The files of the Comics Magazine Association of America have been lost. Three years ago, Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story issued the following appeal, Unfortunately, as the Comic Magazine Association[...]
Code Black – Michael Davis, From The Edge
And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. In 1956 the two-year old Comics Code Authority (CCA) tried its best to stop EC Comics from publishing a particularly offensive comic book Founded in 1954, as part of the Comics Magazine Association Of America the CCA was created in answer to an uneasy American public[...]
Knowing The Enemy: Wertham, Censorship And The CBLDF
A unified comic book industry wasn't able to withstand the Senate investigations, resulting in the government shutting down publishers like EC Comics and creating the Comics Code Authority. Over the years, I realized that this time period in comics history was never as "black-and-white" as it seemed; and it was those "gray areas" that makes this[...]
BC Mag #4: Censor And Be Damned
Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston Some people believe that censorship can only come from the government, laws, police and civil servants,
Dr Fredric Wertham Lied And Lied And Lied About Comics
The Illinois News Bureau reports, (with the most condescending and predictable headline you can imagine, even for Bleeding Cool) that Dr Fredric Wertham, author of Seduction Of The Innocent, the book that inspired government hearings about the content of comic books, saw sales plummet from the bad publicity, and eventually leading to the establishment of[...]
Image Announces Rating System Consistent With DC Comics Ratings
"It's been nearly a decade since the comics industry began the process of abandoning the Comics Code Authority, but during that time there hasn't been one consistent rating system The system DC employs is by far the clearest, so it makes sense to go with that." Image Comics has just announced that they will use[...]
Bongo Dropped Comics Code A Year Ago – And No One Noticed
If a publisher drops the Comics Code and doesn't send a press realease out, does it still make a sound? Yesterday, it was announced that DC Comics had pulled out of the Comics Code (something previous President and Publisher, Paul Levitz, had held very dear to his heart) in favour of a new rating system. But was[...]