I love that this issue was "approved by the Comics Code Authority"...does the CCA even exist anymore? Do they really review the comics that carry their seal? DC should just dump the code.
Marvel's confusing ratings system isn't any better. They should just use the same as the MPAA - G - Jonny DC PG - most titles PG-13 - more violent titles R - Frank Miller crap NC-17 - Vertigo
What's amazing to me is, the Comics Code was never as absolute as the Hays Code. What I mean is, early on, before the Big Two were established, you has indie publishers; later, really even to some (very) limited extent in the Silver Age, the Big Two tried to negotiate what was acceptable. That's where you get those relevancy-era "even though you depict heroin as bad, you can't depict heroin" rulings.
My favorite CCA rejection is "The Terror of Trigon". Leaving aside that he kills everyone on Earth (and Perez renders their pain the way only he can), and the torture Jericho goes through, and the part where they kill a fellow Titan, even just sex things, Wally's temptation is this weird cuckold fantasy.
They rejected it because Dick and Kory are in bed together.
I had seen CCA seals in the 90s, but at that point we were in the "piss on the old regime's grave" stage. Just like how nudity was a fad in late 60s/70s movies, even Planet of the Apes, the 90s were all about doing everything contra the Code, mostly being overly violent.
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Do they really review the comics that carry their seal? DC should just dump the code.
Marvel's confusing ratings system isn't any better.
They should just use the same as the MPAA -
G - Jonny DC
PG - most titles
PG-13 - more violent titles
R - Frank Miller crap
NC-17 - Vertigo
My favorite CCA rejection is "The Terror of Trigon". Leaving aside that he kills everyone on Earth (and Perez renders their pain the way only he can), and the torture Jericho goes through, and the part where they kill a fellow Titan, even just sex things, Wally's temptation is this weird cuckold fantasy.
They rejected it because Dick and Kory are in bed together.
I had seen CCA seals in the 90s, but at that point we were in the "piss on the old regime's grave" stage. Just like how nudity was a fad in late 60s/70s movies, even Planet of the Apes, the 90s were all about doing everything contra the Code, mostly being overly violent.