#comicscode

#JackedKirby - The Face of Doom!!! 💥💥💥 In the early days of Marvel Jack, Stan and the rest of the Bullpen creatives were beholden to the Comics Code, a set of rules and guidelines that governed what could and couldn’t be placed (both in the art or story) in a comic book. This required some “finessing” from the creatives.... they had to find ways to both get their points across while at the same time staying within the guidelines! 💥💥💥 Jack towed that line masterfully, often times utilizing ingenious strategy to meet his requirements instead of altering what it was he wanted to draw. Case in point: The mask if Dr Doom! 💥💥💥 Doom had always been portrayed as wearing a iron mask and green hooded cloak, obscuring his facial features from the outside world... the reasoning being his face underneath was hideously scarred. Despite the fact that this trope is played up for a long time by Kirby, actual “proof” of his scarred face never appears on the pages of the FF. Instead the disfigurement is implied only... therefore being able to be part of the overall characters story without the graphic depiction that would certainly violate the Comic Code. 💥💥💥 In Fantastic Four #Issue85 (from April of 1969) we see Doom posing for an official portrait commissioned from a painter... and he is doing so with his MASK OFF! However Jack utilizes a hand mirror that Doom is viewing his visage in to block out his scarred face from the reader, once again alluding to it with not ACTUALLY showing it.... genius as usual! The code is not violated and Jack still gets to utilize his hideously scarred villain. Everyone is happy. 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #FantasticFour #FF #DrDoom #Doom #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #60sComics #ComicsOfThe60s #TheComicsCode #ComicsCode #Igcomics #igcomiccommunity #comicsofIG #ComicsOfInstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BtvwhSJBo7T/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nbtxhq5ltoiv

#JackedKirby - Jimmy Woo & The Yellow Claw!!!! 💥💥💥 There are things that comic creators from the 50s and 60s COULDN’T do because of the restrictions of the Comic Code.... but there are also tons of things that were considered OK THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE TODAY! Case in point: Jimmy Woo, FBI Agent and his nemesis The Yellow Claw!!! 💥💥💥 The racist overtures of the Yellow Claw comic series is quite clear... to us in 2019 at least! But at the time this was a completely social acceptable endeavor... it even ended up on the right side of the COMICS CODE! But there are certain things that can be found here in this series that have some merit, specifically the main character Jimmy Woo. 💥💥💥 Woo is a hero cop in every sense of the word... he is a true inspiration, especially considering he is Asian in 1950s America while doing it. That makes Kirby’s choice to highlight him as the hero of the book that much more interesting. Kirby often portrayed minority characters in positions of power, and Jimmy Woo is that for the Asian character... Woo would appear in later Captain America and Shield books for Marvel Comics, but its was Jack Kirby as writer and artist on Yellow Claw who pushed the boundaries of an acceptable Asian character being the main hero! 💥💥💥 The villain, the ancient crime lord Yellow Claw, is much more racially typical for the 50s... a Fu Manchu stylized Asian mastermind criminal, who offers a large r aching threat that extends deep into the underworld... and Kirby does him justice as a formidable villain for Woo. (Pic 3 is Kirby’s best splash of the Yellow Claw in my opinion!) Claw would also pop back up in later Shield books for Marvel... but in a much more acceptable (aka less racist) way... 💥💥💥 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #YellowClaw #JimmyWoo #50sComics #ComicsOfThe50s #Atlas #Marvel #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #KirbyPencils #IGComics #IGComicCommunity #igcomic #ComicsCode #Shield #CaptainAmerica #Chinese #AsianComics #AsianComicCharacters https://www.instagram.com/p/Btyo8cRBoPq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ree3eijcd572

‪The title card for the #Hulk animated cartoon, “Punks On Wheels” 1982 is a redo of Jim #Steranko’s cover for Hulk Annual 1, 1968. The oddity is that #StanLee had Marie Severin redraw the original’s face for a lesser intense one to avoid conflict with the #ComicsCode. ‬ https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKPU0ZMd05/?utm_medium=tumblr

Another precode beheading #comicscode #goldenagecomics https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOuDreBAB_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gnbehyxyrc8q

The pre-code comics could get pretty graphic, even in the light hearted ones. This is from a Black Jack story in Zip comics. #mljcomics #archiecomics #zipcomics #goldenagecomics #comicscode https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOtexnhttD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hqviw728qgd2

this is rude to me and my sensibilities 

Been reading a LOT about the anti-comics movement of the 50′s, at the center of which is Fredric Wertham’s notorious book, Seduction of the innocent. This is my love letter to all of those precious pre-code horror comics

Settling down for the night with these two! 🖤👻 #horrorcomics #comics #ghosts #weird #supernatural #comicscode #dccomics #horrorart 💀 (at Perth, Western Australia)