Well, that, and American comics seem to have boiled down to no more than superhero and Archie comics. The war and horror lines seem to have died out just after about the time I stopped buying comics (the price had just gone up from 25 cents, too). Those dealt with more mature stories, and often had character death (especially Sgt Rock, and yes, this was under the Comics Code. Really, I think it was less restrictive than what we're getting now.)

And another note would be that I remember the original dub of Kimba the White Lion, and it had real character death (unlike Saturday morning cartoons ...) And I swear I remember a story about the leader of a tribe of poachers named Magic Mask, who gets shot dead by the Ranger dude ...