There has been no natural progression or actual improvement in the actual structure , art , quality, style etc. since marxists have taken over. It has been stagnant for a long time similar to western art and music in general. What do you think the american comic book industry could improve(outside of the obvious getting rid of woke stuff)?
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Hey, you want a "for kids" story, told under the Comics Code? It was a story of the OSS in one of the World War 2 anthologies I mentioned, can't remember which one now, or the title of the story, but it went like this (more or less, it's been at least 40 years, you see):
It wasn't even about an OSS agent, it was about Hitler's own favourite spy, whom funny mustache man himself dispatches to spy on the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. During his (the spy's) tenure, he winds up getting close to some family, and "goes native", converting to Judaism as he is sent to Auschwitz. While he's there, he's given a chance to get out - by, yes, Hitler himself, who found out about the spy's treachery. The last time you see the spy is when he gets on his knees and prays in Yiddish.
The final scene shows Hitler reading in his study, a little wry smile on his face, by the light of a lamp, the shade of which is kinda pinkish and has a number tattooed on it ....
That just sounds like old traditional fairy tales plot twist ending for kids when kids were tougher. Similar to The Brothers Grimm stories. Also these things were made despite of the code, not because of. And many genres were destroyed and many things got dumbed down because the code stifled creativity so much. And if you look at many anime and manga that are timeless masterpieces and cult classics a lot could not have been made under the CCA .
I don't think they really censored ANYTHING. Heavy Metal came to North American shores in 1977, and it was sold up with the Playboys and Penthouses, while the "regular" Comics Code comics were available on the bottom row right below, literally everywhere magazines were sold, you could find comics. Adult comics were harder to find, but they existed, even though, as I said, comics weren't really aimed at adults in North America .. until the aforementioned Heavy Metal, anyway. You could find Tintin and Asterix at the book stores. But non-Comics code stuff couldn't be full-colour (which is why the original Turtles comics are black and white).
Now? I don't think I've noticed comics for sale anywhere except for the occasional Archie at the checkout stand. And if I owned one of the last mom and pop corner stores, I probably wouldn't carry comics any more either, if I knew that they might slip in Superman buttfucking Batman or something like that. I would also expect something like Happy! to be sold at the more adult-oriented shops or general bookstores (Coles/Chapters.)
And the censorship the left is about to introduce is going to make the Code look downright tame and lenient.
The code did censor tons of things. If you bothered to look up what happened . Like i said some genres couldn't even survive cause it got censored to oblivion and its why the "safe" superhero genre ended up monopolizing everything . Some designs of some characters of things also had to be censored too. They might not be "aimed " at adults but neither should there be outright censorship and banning of literally anything adult and there was no reason to force all those rules and stifle artistic creativity. But yes now a days its the left that is full of shit. I also hate how much they go around trying to cancel things cause they hate big boobies or whatever else they feel like getting angry about that day, .(though the original discussion was about the code so that was what i was talking about).
Again, I grew up in the 1970s, with the Comics Code very much a thing, and still had access to horror and war comics - but those ended by the 1980s, around the time I stopped being interested in the things (and about the time they started to cost more than a quarter or so.) The Code didn't kill them off, the comics companies did - or rather, something killed off Gold Key and Charleton, which had the bulk of the non-superhero stuff that you would see in corner stores and bagged in three-packs at the department stores (Sears, Zeller's, BiWay). I do not think the Code itself was to blame. Yeah, it got rid of the excesses of the Tales of the Crypt type stuff that my mom remembered (and even she admitted it was pretty gross, and she was permissive af when it came to reading material), but if the Code killed off horror and war comics, it took it 30 years or so to do it from what I can see.
In some cases, the story simply ended - The Unknown Soldier being a case there, I had its final issue. I guess I should have kept it. (iirc, he kills Hitler just before the Russians show up to the Bunker, but himself gets killed, leading to the final scene of the Unknown Soldier memorial or some shit.)