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The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation, to allow the comic publishers to self-regulate the content of comic books in the United States. [1]

111 relations: Al Feldstein, American comic book, Archie Comics, Arthur Conan Doyle, Association of Comics Magazine Publishers, Avengers (comics), Back Issue!, Black people, Bongo Comics Group, California, Carmine Infantino, Cassandra Peterson, Censorship, Censorship in the United States, Comic Book Artist, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Comic Book Resources, Concealed carry, Crime comics, Crime SuspenStories, David Hajdu, DC Comics, De facto, Deadman (DC Comics), Decapitation, Dell Comics, Dennis O'Neil, Dracula, EC Comics, Edgar Allan Poe, Epic Comics, Frankenstein, Fredric Wertham, Gerry Conway, Ghoul, Gold Key Comics, Good girl art, Graphic violence, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Harry Lucey, Head shop, Helix (comics), Heroin, Horror fiction, House of Mystery, House of Secrets (DC Comics), Houston, Incredible Science Fiction, Innuendo, ..., Intellectual property, Jim Lee, Joe Orlando, John L. Goldwater, Juvenile delinquency, Katy Keene, Kidnapping, LGBT themes in comics, Los Angeles County, California, Mad (magazine), Maggie Thompson, Martin Goodman (publisher), Marv Wolfman, Marvel Comics, Marvel Comics rating system, Moon Knight, Motion Picture Production Code, Neal Adams, Newsarama, NOW Comics, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Opium, Press release, Racism, Rape, Roy Harper (comics), Sadomasochism, Saki, Scott McCloud, Seduction, Seduction of the Innocent, Speed Buggy, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Strange Adventures, Swamp Thing, Tales from the Crypt (comics), Texas, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Comics Journal, The New York Times, The Simpsons, The Vault of Horror (comics), Time (magazine), Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths, TwoMorrows Publishing, Underground comix, United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, Vampire, Vertigo (DC Comics), Violence, Weird Fantasy, Werewolf, WildStorm, William Gaines, Women in Refrigerators, Wonder Man, Zombie, Zuvembie. Expand index (61 more) »

Al Feldstein

Albert Bernard "Al" Feldstein (October 24, 1925 – April 29, 2014) was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad.

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American comic book

An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing comics content.

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Archie Comics

Archie Comic Publications, Inc. is an American comic book publisher headquartered in Pelham, New York.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Association of Comics Magazine Publishers

The Association of Comics Magazine Publishers (ACMP) was an American industry trade group formed in the late 1940s to regulate the content of comic books in the face of public criticism during that time.

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Avengers (comics)

The Avengers are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Back Issue!

Back Issue! is an American magazine published by TwoMorrows Publishing, based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Bongo Comics Group

Bongo Comics Group is a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Matt Groening along with Steve & Cindy Vance and Bill Morrison.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carmine Infantino

Carmine Michael Infantino (May 24, 1925 – April 4, 2013) was an American comics artist and editor, primarily for DC Comics, during the late 1950s and early 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comic Books.

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Cassandra Peterson

Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Censorship in the United States

Censorship in the United States involves the suppression of speech or public communication and raises issues of freedom of speech, which is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Comic Book Artist

Comic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s.

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Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) is an American non-profit organization formed in 1986 to protect the First Amendment rights of comics creators, publishers, and retailers covering legal expenses.

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Comic Book Resources

Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.

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Concealed carry

Concealed carry (carrying a concealed weapon (CCW)), refers to the practice of carrying a handgun or other weapon in public in a concealed or hidden manner, either on one's person or in close proximity.

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Crime comics

Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction.

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Crime SuspenStories

Crime SuspenStories was a bi-monthly anthology crime comic published by EC Comics in the early 1950s.

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David Hajdu

David Hajdu (born 1955) is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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De facto

In law and government, de facto (or;, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, even if not legally recognised by official laws.

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Deadman (DC Comics)

Deadman (Boston Brand) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe.

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Decapitation

Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body.

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Dell Comics

Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines.

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Dennis O'Neil

Dennis J. "Denny" O'Neil (born May 3, 1939) is an American comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics from the 1960s through the 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of titles until his retirement.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Epic Comics

Epic Comics (also known as the Epic Comics Group)Shooter, Jim.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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Fredric Wertham

Fredric Wertham (March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a German-American psychiatrist and author.

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Gerry Conway

Gerard F. ConwayThomas, Roy.

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Ghoul

A ghoul is a demon or monster in Arabian mythology, associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh.

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Gold Key Comics

Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands.

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Good girl art

Good girl art (GGA) is artwork featuring attractive women in comic books, comic strips, and pulp magazines.

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Graphic violence

Graphic violence is the depiction of especially vivid, brutal and realistic acts of violence in visual media such as literature, film, television, and video games.

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Green Arrow

Green Arrow is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics.

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Green Lantern

Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Harry Lucey

Harry Lucey (November 13, 1913 – August 28, 1984) was an American comic artist best known for his work in MLJ and Archie Comics.

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Head shop

A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis and tobacco and items related to cannabis culture and related countercultures.

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Helix (comics)

Helix was a short-lived, science fiction and science fantasy imprint of DC Comics, launched in 1996 and discontinued in 1998.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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House of Mystery

The House of Mystery is the name of several horror, fantasy, and mystery Comics anthologies published by DC Comics.

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House of Secrets (DC Comics)

The House of Secrets is the name of several mystery, fantasy, and horror comics anthologies published by DC Comics.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Incredible Science Fiction

Incredible Science Fiction was an American science fiction anthology comic published by EC Comics in 1955 and 1956, lasting a total of four issues.

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Innuendo

An innuendo is a hint, insinuation or intimation about a person or thing, especially of a denigrating or a derogatory nature.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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Jim Lee

Jim Lee (Korean 이용철; born August 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic-book artist, writer, editor, and publisher.

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Joe Orlando

Joseph "Joe" Orlando (April 4, 1927 – December 23, 1998) was an Italian American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades.

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John L. Goldwater

John Leonard Goldwater (February 14, 1916 – February 26, 1999) founded (with Maurice Coyne and Louis Silberkleit) MLJ Comics (later known as Archie Comics), and served as editor and co-publisher for many years.

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Juvenile delinquency

Juvenile delinquency, also known as "juvenile offending", is participation in illegal behavior by minors (juveniles, i.e. individuals younger than the statutory age of majority).

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Katy Keene

Katy Keene, a character created by Bill Woggon, has appeared in several comic book series published by Archie Comics since 1945.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.

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LGBT themes in comics

LGBT themes in comics are a relatively new concept, as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) themes and characters were historically omitted intentionally from the content of comic books and their comic strip predecessors, due to either censorship or the perception that comics were for children.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Mad (magazine)

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.

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Maggie Thompson

Margaret "Maggie" Thompson (born Margaret Curtis on November 29, 1942), is a former librarian, longtime editor of the now-defunct Comics Buyer's Guide (a comic book industry news magazine), science fiction fan and collector of comics.

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Martin Goodman (publisher)

Martin Goodman (born Moe Goodman; January 18, 1908 – June 6, 1992,City of New York, Department of Health Certificate and Record of Birth, January 18, 1908, No. 3268, lists name as "Moe". Bell and Vassallo list his name as "Moses", citing U.S. Census records, Birth year given as 1910, Brooklyn, in Bell, Vassallo note (p. 290), "Daniels's book gets several facts wrong, including Goodman's date of birth, the name of his very first pulp, and the name of his first publishing company." Birth year also appears as 1910 at Birthdate is given as January 8, likely a typographical error, at was an American publisher of pulp magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, launching the company that would become Marvel Comics.

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Marv Wolfman

Marvin Arthur "Marv" Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book writer.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Marvel Comics rating system

The Marvel rating system is a system for rating the content of comic books, with regard to appropriateness for different age groups.

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Moon Knight

Moon Knight (Marc Spector) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Motion Picture Production Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.

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Neal Adams

Neal Adams (born June 15, 1941) is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Batman and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and as a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

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Newsarama

Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews, and essays about the American comic book industry.

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NOW Comics

NOW Comics was a comic book publisher founded in late 1985 by Tony C. Caputo as a sole-proprietorship.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Opium

Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).

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Press release

A press release, news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.

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Roy Harper (comics)

Roy Harper is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Sadomasochism

Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.

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Saki

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.

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Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist.

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Seduction

Seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person, to engage in a relationship, to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; to corrupt, to persuade or induce to engage in sexual behaviour.

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Seduction of the Innocent

Seduction of the Innocent is a book by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency.

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Speed Buggy

Speed Buggy is an American animated television series, produced by Hanna-Barbera, which originally aired for one season on CBS from September 8, 1973 to December 22, 1973.

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber, December 28, 1922) is an American comic-book writer, editor, film executive producer, actor and publisher.

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Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures was the title of several American comic books published by DC Comics, the first of which was released in September 1950.

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Swamp Thing

The Swamp Thing is a fictional character and antihero in comic books published by American company DC Comics.

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Tales from the Crypt (comics)

Tales from the Crypt was an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955, producing 27 issues.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the fictional superhero Spider-Man as its main protagonist. Being in the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously, with a brief interruption in 1995, until its relaunch with a new numbering order in 1999. In 2003 the series reverted to the numbering order of the first volume. The title has occasionally been published biweekly, and was published three times a month from 2008 to 2010. A film named after the comic was released July 3, 2012. After DC Comics' relaunch of Action Comics and Detective Comics with new #1 issues in 2011, it had been the highest-numbered American comic still in circulation until it was cancelled. The title ended its 50-year run as a continuously published comic with issue #700 in December 2012. It was replaced by The Superior Spider-Man as part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch of Marvel's comic lines. The title was relaunched in April 2014, starting fresh from issue #1, after the "Goblin Nation" story arc published in The Superior Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up. In late 2015, The Amazing Spider-Man was relaunched again with a new volume with issue #1 following the 2015 Secret Wars event.

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The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Vault of Horror (comics)

The Vault of Horror was an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics in the early 1950s.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths

The is a prefectural law passed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in 1964.

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TwoMorrows Publishing

TwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of magazines about comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.

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United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency

The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was established by the United States Senate in 1953 to investigate the problem of juvenile delinquency.

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Vertigo (DC Comics)

DC Vertigo (originally simply Vertigo) is an imprint of the American comic book publisher DC Comics.

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Violence

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation," although the group acknowledges that the inclusion of "the use of power" in its definition expands on the conventional understanding of the word.

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Weird Fantasy

Weird Fantasy is a science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s.

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Werewolf

In folklore, a werewolf (werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf).

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WildStorm

WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, (often rendered Wildstorm) is an American comic book imprint.

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William Gaines

William Maxwell "Bill" Gaines (March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992), was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics.

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Women in Refrigerators

Women in Refrigerators (or WiR) is a website created in 1999 by a group of feminists and comic book fans that lists examples of the comic book trope whereby female characters are injured, killed, or depowered (an event colloquially known as fridging) as a plot device, and seeks to analyze why these plot devices are allegedly used disproportionately on female characters.

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Wonder Man

Wonder Man (Simon Williams) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.

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Zuvembie

A zuvembie is a creature used by Robert E. Howard in his short story "Pigeons from Hell," published in Weird Tales in 1938.

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