The End of the Comics Code Authority

[Blitzkid]

I never thought DC would let go,I found that I was reading more DC comics in the last few years and was finally giving them respect,as I was always more a marvel zombie.

Knowing they avenged EC comics in a way,reading more DC books than ever(I think I'm a convert)
Bongo comics is also out. The CCA is DE-funct.

The CCA was definitley outdated and deserved to be dumped nuff said.

-Nick

[Surfsup]

It was just another relic of the 50s, I'm surprised it's lasted this long. The code now is way out of touch with todays society, we have the likes of political correctness these days to keep us company.

[samurainoir]

Look what long lost original art just happened to turn up just as the code ends it's run...

[saildog]

^
ICONIC!!!!

I always loved Gaines' exchange with Kefauver over that cover.

Senator KEFAUVER: Here is your May 22 issue. This seems to be a man with a bloody ax holding a woman's head up which has been severed from her body. Do you think that is in good taste?

Mr. GAINES: Yes, sir; I do, for the cover of a horror comic. A cover in bad taste, for example, might be defined as holding the head a little higher so that the neck could be seen dripping blood from it and moving the body over a little further so that the neck of the body could be seen to be bloody.

Senator KEFAUVER: You have blood coming out of her mouth.

Mr. GAINES: A little.



Testimony of William Gaines

[Cmonster]

^ I do ludat cova.

SC

[saildog]

Interesting story about Gaines and the Comics Code Authority read by David Hajdu from Hajdu's book "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMYNpvoiBJw&feature=fvw

[samurainoir]

I think they should start putting the "Easy Reader" stamp of approval from Spidey Super Stories on all new comics. Kids would be all "Hey Look! Morgan Freeman is telling us to read!" and stuff.

[Adam West]

I'm sure this is all going hand in hand with the decline of newsprint media. DC and Marvel will need to jump on the digital bandwagon. I have said and continue to say that I enjoy holding and reading a book as opposed to reading one on a Kindle or some other digital book reader. There may be some room left there where you can download a comic for $.99 or some price level where they can remain profitable and make it appealing at the same time.

[The Toyroom]

Apparently the CCA may not have even existed for the last year, even though DC and Archie were still using the seal on some of their books....

[ctc]

>Apparently the CCA may not have even existed for the last year, even though DC and Archie were still using the seal on some of their books....

Does that mean they were *gasp* ZOMBIES?!?!?! If so, they'd best chastize themselves. Zombies go against Code part B, section 5.

Don C.