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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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The Gatekeepers of Comic Books

The people who were reading them were largely, a, a, middle aged women whom the comics weren't designed for. They took on a mother like roll, looking at these comics and deciding whether or not they deemed that it would be appropriate for their children. And so these, these women and t the czar whom they worked fori thaks roll changed over time, and there were multiple people who held the position. But they, you know, buy ing large were making the decisions of how comic books would enter the market. If they didn't have the seal, they couldn't be carried by major distributors. Therefore, you wouldn't be able to buy them, for instance, like

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