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CLASSIC: The Rise and Fall of the Comics Code

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Do You Know What's Missing From Comics?

There was a lot of sensitivity to how different groups were being portrayed. A new 19 89 version of the code was very specific about how you could portray national, social, political, cultural, ethnic and racial groups,. including religious institutions. In captain america in the eighties, he would often come up against these examples of society conflicts that were happening at the time. The femazons even tried to start their own society on a cruiseship and take it around the world. Do they have super powers? Yes, some of them do.

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