174 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part One
From 1964 until 2011 comic books were nominally approved by a content regime called the Comics Code Authority. The Authority grew out of anti-comic book sentiment in the early part of the twentieth century.
An episode of the The Weird History Podcast podcast, hosted by Joe Streckert, titled "174 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part One" was published on September 14, 2018 and runs 26 minutes.
September 14, 2018 ·26m · The Weird History Podcast
Summary
From 1964 until 2011 comic books were nominally approved by a content regime called the Comics Code Authority. The Authority grew out of anti-comic book sentiment in the early part of the twentieth century. Anti-comics advocates like Fredric Wertham portrayed comic books as filled with crime, sex, and corrupting ideas. In 1954 a senate subcommittee headed by Tennessee senator Estes Kefauver all but put comic books on trial, with Kefauver grilling EC Comics publisher Bill Gaines about the content of then-popular horror comics. The exchange would change comic book publishing forever.
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