Milestone
Comics Code Authority Adoption
Also Known As The Comics Code
Comics Milestones
The Comics Magazine Association of America formed the Comics Code Authority in September 1954, at the height of a moral panic over graphic violence and horror imagery in comic books that coincided with United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings and the publication of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent, both of which increasingly called for government regulation of the industry. Comic book distributors and wholesalers refused to carry or handle any comic lacking the Code's seal of approval, effectively making them the industry's own enforcement arm; some publishers thrived within the restrictions while others cancelled titles, refocused entirely on code approved content, or went out of business.
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Milestone Year WhenThe Comics Magazine Association of America adopted the Code on October 26, 1954, in response to Senate hearings on comic books and juvenile delinquency and to Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent. 1 LocationNew York City, United States 1 Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationComics Code Authority, Formation and Criticism and enforcement sections
Publisher William Gaines believed that clauses forbidding the words 'crime', 'horror', and 'terror' in comic book titles had been deliberately aimed at his own best-selling titles Crime SuspenStories, The Vault of Horror, and Tales from the Crypt.
Comics Code Authority, Formation section, formation date
The Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA) was formed in September 1954 in response to a widespread public concern over graphic violence and horror imagery in comic books.
Comics Code Authority, Formation
The Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA) was formed in September 1954 in response to a widespread public concern over graphic violence and horror imagery in comic books.
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Comics Code Authority, Lead
The CMAA formed the Comics Code Authority at the height of a moral panic around comics that coincided with the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings of 1954 and the publication of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent, both of which increasingly called for government regulation of comic books.
Associated With: Hays Code Adoption, Comics Code Authority Formation section
He established the Comics Code Authority (CCA), basing its code upon the largely unenforced code drafted by the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers in 1948, which in turn had been modeled loosely after the 1940 Hollywood Production Code, also known as the "Hays Code".
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