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Article: The History of the Comics Code

Posted: September 30, 2012

Near the top of the cover on nearly any American comic book from around spring 1955, you will find a strange little postage stamp containing the words “Approved by the Comics Code Authority.” For over first years, the “CCA” controlled what you were permitted to read in almost all comics distributed to America’s newsstands. So what is the origin of the CCA and how did it acquire this superpower?  Read my latest Article here…

 

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