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Sep 10, 2026
Peter WatsonHOST
80 pages, all new stories, world's finest comics.
Peter WatsonHOST
And then we have the headshots of some of the characters who feature in this issue, and they are Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, and the Vigilante, approved, of course, by the Comics Code Authority.
Peter WatsonHOST
Now, the main image on the cover, of course, is the Superman-Batman story.
Peter WatsonHOST
Superman has got Bruce Wayne by the lapels.
JamieHOST
All of the negative attention severely hurt the comic book industry.
JamieHOST
And to avoid turning children into criminals, publishers not only had to tone things down, but every new comic had to be approved by the newly established Comic Code.
JamieHOST
Heading into the 1980s, society had experienced several morally hazardous creations.
JamieHOST
Arcades and video games would soon be added to the list and about to face a reckoning of their own, a reckoning that would go all the way to the Supreme Court.
BrimstoneHOST
not ACA?
Hazel AvivaHOST
The Comics Code Authority.
BrimstoneHOST
I thought it was American Comics Association.
BrimstoneHOST
It sounds
Hazel AvivaHOST
like a villain from a Marvel movie.
Hazel AvivaHOST
The Comics Code Authority.
Hazel AvivaHOST
It
Tom GreerHOST
does.
Aaron KingHOST
He is from that final Roy Thomas, Neil Adams run of X-Men before it became a reprint, X-Men 59.
Aaron KingHOST
At that time, the Comics Code Authority did not allow vampire werewolves or zombies.
Aaron KingHOST
Oh.
Aaron KingHOST
And so this was their workaround to have a vampire who was not a vampire.
Caleb Zane HewittHOST
Why did they not allow vampire werewolves or zombies?
Aaron KingHOST
How much time do we have? So the Comics Code Authority was established after Frederick Wertham, psychologist, brought the crimes of comics before the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Aaron KingHOST
And basically was like, comics are bad for people.
Aaron KingHOST
They make people violent and gay.
TonyHOST
I just...
ScottHOST
Well, I wonder if, you know, the magazine is able to skirt the comic, doesn't fall under the Comics Code Authority.
TonyHOST
Yeah, I think that's the deal.
TonyHOST
So, yeah, good.
Peter WatsonHOST
In the top left corner, it's the line of DC Superstars logo.
Peter WatsonHOST
Other corner, 20 cents, number 117, March 30535 is production code approved, of course, by the Comics Code Authority.
Peter WatsonHOST
There's No Escape from The House of Secrets.
Peter WatsonHOST
And it's one of these classic early 70s DC mystery covers in which there are children who are looking shocked.
Jessica FrazierHOST
Yeah.
Jessica FrazierHOST
Super obvious that they didn't have to work within the comics code and they were just taking full advantage of it, which is fine.
Jessica FrazierHOST
Like, that's great.
Mike ThompsonHOST
There's another issue of the series and I can't remember which one it is, but it's got cover art by Dave Stevens and, you know, the Rocketeer.
Jessica FrazierHOST
Okay.
Mike ThompsonHOST
Yeah.
Mike ThompsonHOST
I mean, like it makes sense that they would do that because they weren't beholden to the comics code.
Mike ThompsonHOST
Right.
David C. RobersonHOST
In the comics, in the old comics, Guy Gardner, who had a perfectly normal head of hair.
David C. RobersonHOST
This is some Comics Code shit.
David C. RobersonHOST
He was Hal's backup in case anything ever happened to Hal.
David C. RobersonHOST
He was the next in line.
Chris FranklinHOST
You know, it's like, oh, my God.
Chris FranklinHOST
I mean, I don't know how that got past the Comics Code in 1977, 8, whatever it was.
Chris FranklinHOST
I don't know how that happened, but it did.
Chris FranklinHOST
It was 78, I guess, because it was an implosion.
Chris TannhauserGUEST
these horror comics as, as the thing.
Chris TannhauserGUEST
And that's why they, they made the Comics Code Authority, was to try and, you know, where the, where the, uh, the bad guy can never win, the hero can never lose, you know, these sorts of strictures that they put on comics at the time.
Chris TannhauserGUEST
Again-
Quinn MitchellHOST
Yeah
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