From: [ejs 16] at [merhaba.cc.columbia.edu] (Eric Jaron Stieglitz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: More CCA History (was: Re: Isn't the CCA censorship?)
Date: 10 Aug 93 02:43:09 GMT

In article <[1993 Aug 8 173524 1] at [hamp.hampshire.edu]> [j l miller] at [hamp.hampshire.edu] writes:
>To continue the excellent CCA history posted, after the Spiderman story (one 
>of the best Marvel's ever done, IMHO) the CCA was forced to reform and relax 
>some of its rules to "move with the times." This led to such groundbreaking 
>stuff as O'Neil and Adam's Green Lantern/Green Arrow stories, as well as 
>silliness like the Prez.

  Has anyone ever wondered why the early monster Marvels and other books
from the time period always featured bizarre creatures with names like
"Gormuu," "Grokk, the thing that came from space!" and other such classics,
yet never involved vampires and other monsters from real mythology? The
reason for this was that the CCA prohibited comic books from portraying
vampires, werewolves, and the like. When the code was revised in '70-'71,
these prohibitions against mythological monsters were lifted, and comics
like _Tomb of Dracula_, _Werewolf by Night_, and others came into being.
Therefore, we saw a glut of monster comics during the '70s.

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