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The 16 pages that link to Comics Code Authority, each with the reason it gives.

• Comic bookRelated: Its rules reshaped the content and distribution of mainstream American comics.

• DC ComicsRelated: Its standards shaped the content and publication environment DC faced.

• Stan LeeRelated: Lee challenged its restrictions in a 1971 Spider-Man story about drug abuse.

• Golden Age of Comic BooksRelated: The code restricted crime and horror material and helped drive major changes in publishing.

• Comics studiesRelated: Its censorship history shaped scholarship on comics, regulation, and public attitudes.

• Seduction of the InnocentRelated: The book’s campaign helped create pressure for this system of self-censorship.

• Superhero comicRelated: Its restrictions shaped the content and tone of superhero comics for decades.

• American comic bookRelated: Its restrictions altered what publishers could depict and how comics reached stores.

• Fredric WerthamRelated: Publishers created it amid the backlash Wertham’s book helped intensify.

• Harvey KurtzmanRelated: The censorship climate surrounding its creation helped push Mad from comic book to magazine.

• William Moulton MarstonRelated: Its later restrictions reshaped the medium Marston had used to explore bondage and power.

• History of comicsRelated: The code constrained content and reshaped publishers’ choices during a major public backlash.

• Silver Age of Comic BooksRelated: Its restrictions reshaped the market in which superhero comics returned.