Regulation

In the earlier days of the golden age, there wasn’t any additional regulation of comics aside from what regulation there was for any other book. The only additional “regulation” was really the general agreement of writers to produce “wholesome” content. However as time went on more and more groups started to become cynical of comics claiming there was juvenile delinquency and the temptations of evil. Churches held book burnings, parents were told to complain to grocers on the stock of comics, and there were even congressional hearings. Eventually in the mid 1950s the Comics code was produced as a self regulation between comic publishers ad was essentially the “hays code” of comic booksapproved_by_the_comics_code_authority (weldon 2011). This new era of strict regulation and a negative image to the parent community the golden age of comics was over (however the golden age had already been transitioning to the silver age between the 40s and 50s with the end of WW2). Overall the regulation came from more of a fear of the comic book itself rather than the content so regulation did not satisfy all against comics (weldon 2011).

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