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To find out, we bravely read this comic, despite its overtly glittery cover, and applied the standards of the venerable Comics Code of 1954 to what we saw The results, sadly, are probably less than shocking to anyone who has been following Cain's outspoken and disruptive work. Going through the list of rules in the Comics[...]

The Comics Code was administered by the Comics Magazine Association of America For decades, when it came to comics, they saw everything Everything. But now? We see nothing The files of the Comics Magazine Association of America have been lost. Three years ago, Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story issued the following appeal, Unfortunately, as the Comic Magazine Association[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist. He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con. And he now writes a

And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. In 1956 the two-year old Comics Code Authority (CCA) tried its best to stop EC Comics from publishing a particularly offensive comic book Founded in 1954, as part of the Comics Magazine Association Of America the CCA was created in answer to an uneasy American public[...]

A unified comic book industry wasn't able to withstand the Senate investigations, resulting in the government shutting down publishers like EC Comics and creating the Comics Code Authority. Over the years, I realized that this time period in comics history was never as "black-and-white" as it seemed; and it was those "gray areas" that makes this[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston Some people believe that censorship can only come from the government, laws, police and civil servants,

The Illinois News Bureau reports, (with the most condescending and predictable headline you can imagine, even for Bleeding Cool) that Dr Fredric Wertham, author of Seduction Of The Innocent, the book that inspired government hearings about the content of comic books, saw sales plummet from the bad publicity, and eventually leading to the establishment of[...]

"It's been nearly a decade since the comics industry began the process of abandoning the Comics Code Authority, but during that time there hasn't been one consistent rating system The system DC employs is by far the clearest, so it makes sense to go with that." Image Comics has just announced that they will use[...]

The recent statements by DC Comics and Archie that they are about to cease using the Comics Code Authority seal on their comics, and subsequent revelations that there are no publishers left actively using the Code, have in a very real way crystallized the comicsphere zeitgeist that major change is coming to our industry in[...]

I think this is the definition of irony: one of the most famous moments of the 1954 Senate Hearings which helped prompt the comic book industry to create the Comics Code is an exchange between Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and EC Publisher William Gaines, during which the Senator questioned Gaines about the cover of Crime[...]

If a publisher drops the Comics Code and doesn't send a press realease out, does it still make a sound? Yesterday, it was announced that DC Comics had pulled out of the Comics Code (something previous President and Publisher, Paul Levitz, had held very dear to his heart) in favour of a new rating system. But was[...]

As posted by Jim Lee on the Vertigo Blog, DC Comics will no longer be using the Comics Code Authority on any of its titles, and will instead be using its own ratings system Marvel stopped using the Code a decade ago, and with DC's withdrawal this leaves Archie as the only publisher still[...]