Maddd Science Back in late 2015, I found an interesting Wikipedia sub-section about the Comics Code Authority. It's an organization created in response to a 50's-era comic book moral panic: It policed any comic book hoping to make it to the (industry-sustaining) grocery store shelf, checking for such evils as plunging necklines and the word "horror" on covers. It was also run by racists, as demonstrated by a 1956 incident in which the CCA rejected a sci-fi story due to "the central character being black."
Black Panther
Black Panther
Black Panther
Maddd Science Back in late 2015, I found an interesting Wikipedia sub-section about the Comics Code Authority. It's an organization created in response to a 50's-era comic book moral panic: It policed any comic book hoping to make it to the (industry-sustaining) grocery store shelf, checking for such evils as plunging necklines and the word "horror" on covers. It was also run by racists, as demonstrated by a 1956 incident in which the CCA rejected a sci-fi story due to "the central character being black."