• The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation. The CCA enabled...
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    banded together to form the Comics Code Authority which would screen comics before they went to press, and only allow the Code mark to appear if the comic...
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    in 2001 after Marvel broke with the Comics Code Authority and established its own rating system. The MAX Comics imprint is not Marvel's first effort...
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  • appropriateness for different age groups. In 2001, Marvel Comics withdrew from the Comics Code Authority and established its own rating system for its publications...
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    most comics were constrained by the Comics Code Authority to be suitable for children. Consequently, erotic comics have sometimes been subject to criticism...
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    passed previously but the Authority stuck by their decision. DC decided to print the comic without the Comics Code Authority stamp. The short story has...
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  • Final Crisis: Revelations". Comic Book Resources. "Standards of the Comics Code Authority for editorial matter". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19...
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    Seduction of the Innocent (category Books about comics)
    Subsequent to the publication of Seduction of the Innocent, the Comics Code Authority was established by publishers to self-censor their titles. In the...
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    from print media in the wake of television and the impact of the Comics Code Authority. The late 1950s and the 1960s saw a superhero revival and superheroes...
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  • self-censorship Comics Code Authority contributed to the demise of many titles and the toning down of others. Black-and-white horror-comics magazines, which...
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  • template for a more detailed set of rules enforced by the CMAA's Comics Code Authority. The ACMP was formed in May 1947 and publicly announced on July...
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  • unglamorous. However, the industry's self-censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, refused to approve the story because of the presence of narcotics...
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  • crime, horror, and superheroes. In 1954, publishers implemented the Comics Code Authority to regulate comic content. In the wake of these changes, publishers...
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  • They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use...
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  • Zuvembie (section Comics)
    in 1938. In the 1970s Marvel Comics used the term in place of "zombie", which had been banned by the Comics Code Authority. Robert E. Howard used the "zuvembie"...
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    Hollywood cinema Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters, which served the same purpose for television series Comics Code Authority, which functioned...
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  • damaged reputation. They formed the Comics Magazine Association of America and its Comics Code Authority. The CCA code expanded on the ACMP's restrictions...
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    establishment of the Comics Code Authority self-censoring body. The Code has been blamed for stunting the growth of American comics and maintaining its...
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    Illegal drug use, banned by the Comics Code Authority, explicitly appeared in comics for the first time in Marvel Comics' story "Green Goblin Reborn!" in...
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  • Fredric Wertham (category Comics controversies)
    addition to the 1954 comic book hearings, led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority, although later scholars cast doubt on his observations. Wertham...
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    Magazine Association of America is best known to comic fans for its Comics Code Authority.) Goldwater was also a national commissioner of the Anti-Defamation...
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  • John L. Goldwater (category Comics infobox without image)
    custodian of the comic book censorship guidelines known as the Comics Code Authority. Goldwater was born in East Harlem, New York on February 14, 1916...
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  • testify in public hearings. As a result, the Comics Code Authority was created by the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers to enact self-censorship...
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  • comical prankster in the late 1950s in response to regulation by the Comics Code Authority, before returning to his darker roots during the early 1970s. The...
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  • and comics were socially condemned for their alleged harmful effects on children; to protect the reputation of comic books, the Comics Code Authority (CCA)...
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  • stopped submitting The Saga of the Swamp Thing for approval by the Comics Code Authority. Following the success of two adult-oriented 1986 limited series...
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  • the Comics Magazine Association of America imitated the film industry's self-governed Hays Code with the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954...
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  • Bradbury's short stories. The New Direction group was a response to the Comics Code Authority. Picto-Fiction was a short-lived line of heavily illustrated short...
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  • Harvey, R. C. (July 28, 2011). "John Goldwater, the Comics Code Authority, and Archie". The Comics Journal. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014...
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  • adoption of sound and the Motion Picture Production Code Comics produced before the Comics Code Authority was formed in 1954 Zero-forcing precoding, a method...
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