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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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Is There a Great Communist in Comics?

In the fifties, a lot of super hero comics especially, were using communists as their villains. The red skull started off as sleazy business man, then he became a notse then in the f50s, he became a communist. His ideologis just shifted to whatever it was that we as as a nation didn't like. There's one thing an evil business man will love, it's a communist, rightye? And i think in some ways that extends ideology as well, right? Like, no great communist. Oh, yes. That was a huge nono!

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