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What the Hays Code was for movies in 1930, the Comics Code Authority was for comics in 1954: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority http://en.wikipe
by ken 18y ago
What the Hays Code was for movies in 1930, the Comics Code Authority was for comics in 1954: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
I find it even more shocking because it was created a quarter century later, and it seems even more ridiculous. Hays covers the content of movies, but the CCA dictates even the title: "No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title".
I'm sure my grandchildren will say exactly the same thing about my generation, but I cannot imagine how that one word would cause anybody to even blink.
Other awesome things the CCA prohibits: gruesome, gory, unsavory, evil.
- hugh 18y agoI find that less shocking, since while films were aimed at a general audience, comic books were aimed at children. If you read it as a list of things that are unsuitable for small children then a lot of it still sounds fairly reasonable (with certain obvious exceptions).