tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post851381709900828161..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Not For KidsScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-36411501162366234052021-06-13T12:32:00.912-05:002021-06-13T12:32:00.912-05:00Just around the corner from the seacoast of Bohemi...Just around the corner from the seacoast of Bohemia.Steve Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-88504367454826139522021-06-13T08:36:21.744-05:002021-06-13T08:36:21.744-05:00@John Hendry - The Black Sea borders the Carpathia...@John Hendry - The Black Sea borders the Carpathians, I believe.<br /><br />If I were a kid reading this who wasn't yet aware of sex, I'd assume that the prisoners were to be tortured. Which isn't so far off the mark, really. I'd call this "getting stuff past the censors" rather than "writing above the presumed target audience". Otherwise all sorts of things become classed as "adult" entertainment, like Animaniacs, or Shrek, which are really just throwing in jokes to amuse the creators or to broaden the audience a bit.<br /><br />Also, I think comics were already viewed as children's material even before 1960, or even 1956. Congress made that point quite forcefully in 1954, and there were groups protesting comics as being inappropriate for kids even in the '40s.<br /><br />I'm also not sure that we, 80 years later, have the best idea of what the '40s considered "appropriate for kids" (even bearing in mind that you're a few decades older than I am). All sorts of things have been published as "children's literature" that would horrify contemporary people.Imitorarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03789589943902054909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-86194391383953942532021-06-13T07:28:16.992-05:002021-06-13T07:28:16.992-05:00One of the reasons that I disagree with the variou...One of the reasons that I disagree with the various comic book historians on delineating "ages" is, in fact, because the the Comics Code Authority is like a light switch, for most companies, abruptly shifting from a medium where a random reader could find just about <i>anything</i> to read, somewhere, to a medium that was not only aimed at kids, but aimed at kids whose parents wanted to raise them with extremely specific political views. Criminals never have a valid point. Authority figures are never corrupt. There is no diversity, though diversity was already uncommon. Women are either obsessed with getting married or obsessed with finding their missing father.<br /><br />DC got ahead of the curve, by the way, issuing internal CCA-like guidelines around 1948 as a reaction to comic book burnings. But you can see the industry change most dramatically next in 1970, when the Code was amended to allow horror monsters (like zombies) and limited drug use again.<br /><br />That said, a comment like that would fly over the heads of most kids, I suspect, and so was probably more for the adults (particularly soldiers and sailors) to get a cheap laugh.John Chttps://john.colagioia.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-50435695716936282792021-06-12T21:52:46.619-05:002021-06-12T21:52:46.619-05:00Ah, the famous Carpathian coastline.Ah, the famous Carpathian coastline.Jonathan Hendryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11969795168617852589noreply@blogger.com