#comic code authority

If you don't know what Seduction of The Innocent is, you probably do NOT know. Obviously there is more to this topic besides moral panic and Wertham, but I feel it's a good starting point to test the waters of knowledge. On my first poll, I was vague on purpose, but that was an issue. People marked "yes" when they had no IDEA what the queer history I was referring to was. So, this is another poll, hopefully enough context.

These are my copies of The Transformers #17 (left) and #18 (right). You might notice two interesting difference between these two issues.

The first difference is that Transformers #17 does not have the comic book code authorities approval stamp whereas #18 does. The CCA was a self imposed censorship of comic books beginning in the 50s. However, the 80s saw multiple comics getting published without the stamp of approval including many issues of Transformers. In this case I assume the violent depictions of bots getting melted down was too much for the CCA.

https://geekandsundry.com/the-wednesday-clubs-comic-picks-seduction-of-the-innocent/

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We loosely modeled our independent comic books after the (now defunct) Comics Code Authority. From 1954 through 2011, comic book publishers self-policed its content. Since the United States Postal Office shipped comic books, content must have met certain standards or fail delivery. One restriction example was: “No comic magazine shall use the words ‘horror’ or ‘terror’ in its title.”

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