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The end of the "Comics Code Authority"
- brudgers 16y ago>"the paranoid days of the commie scare — a period much shorter in its reign than the current post 9/11 world" In the US "red scares" started just after the Bolshevik Revolution and the cable networks are still ranting about socialists nearly 100 years later. Long after Mcarthyism passed, public high schools still had mandatory "comparative economics" courses as a requirement for graduation.
- jcr 16y agoThere's a lot more (damaging) information on the "Comics Code Authority" in its wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority They're responsible for not just censorship but also fear mongering, racism, sexism, and the list of abuses goes on and on.
- electromagnetic 16y agoIt also kept comics on rather juvenile themes for a very long period by banning depictions of drug addiction/use and many other real life themes.