From: [j l miller] at [hamp.hampshire.edu]
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: More CCA History (was: Re: Isn't the CCA censorship?)
Date: 8 Aug 93 20:33:50 EDT

In article <[k g NM 3 x 30 BwwMM 81 G c t] at [transarc.com]>, [Abhijit Khale] at [transarc.com] writes:
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> [j l miller] at [hamp.hampshire.edu] writes:
>> the proverbial camel's back.
>> Alan Moore, a young English writer who had just begun a surprising run on a DC
>> horror title called Swamp Thing, wrote a script called "Love and Death." It was
>> a true psychological horror, and Karen Berger, his editor, loved it. As did the
>> artists, Steve Bissette and John Totleben, who threw themselves into drawing
>> the blood, insects, zombies and general low-gore that kept the script (which
>> maintained a very goreless building tension) moving along wonderfully. Berger
>> loved the finished product, although she was a bit worried about it. It was
>> shown to Jeanette Kahn, publisher of DC, who was also very impressed. Then it
>> was submitted to the CCA, a necessity. The CCA rejected it as unsuitable. In a
>> historic move, Kahn defied the CCA and published it anyway, labeling it "For
>> Mature Readers Only."
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> Are you sure about that ? As far as I remember, DC didnt put the mature comics
> label on Swamp Thing till into the 50s (with the Adam Strange storyline). They
> may have put it on an occasional earlier comic, but not as a regular thing. 
> 
> Incidentally, DC's first non-code comic was probably a Madame Xanadu Special. I
> think that came out just before Camelot 3000, which was also non-code. 
> 
> Abhijit
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Went and checked--you're right. They labeled it "sophisticated suspense," by
which they meant the same thing. BTW- I think ST 29 was the first widely
distributed (i.e. newsstands) non Code book.
I think Camelot 3000 came out first...when did Ronin come out? (And didn't we
do that thread a few months ago?)

jonathan.