{"id":2141,"date":"2011-01-20T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2011-03-10T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T00:40:01","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-the-comics-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/20\/is-this-the-end-of-the-comics-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the end of the Comics Code?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DC Comics <a href=\"http:\/\/vertigo.blog.dccomics.com\/2011\/01\/20\/from-the-co-publishers\/\">announced today<\/a> it was abandoning the Comics Code, which makes it seem as if the organization that has cast a pall over the industry since 1954 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/01\/20\/is-this-the-end-of-the-comics-code-dc-replaces-code-with-own-ratings-system\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BleedingCool+%28Bleeding+Cool+Comic+News+%26+Rumors%29\">on its way out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s the perfect time to dig into my vault and pull out a 1976 letter written by Gerry Conway (during his brief reign as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics) to Len Darvin (then the head of the Comics Code Authority). Gerry was asking for a requested edit to <i>The Inhumans<\/i> to be reconsidered, and while the particulars aren&#8217;t as controversial as the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/movies\/2010\/10\/harvey-weinstein-blue-valentine-ryan-gosling-mpaa.html\"><i>Blue Valentine<\/i> brouhaha<\/a>, it does make for an interesting peek behind the curtain at a custom that has long outlived its usefulness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter1-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter1\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter1-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter1-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter1.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter2-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter2\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter2-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter2-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GerryConwayComicsCodeLetter2.jpg 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archie and Bongo are apparently the last Comics Code holdouts. <\/p>\n<p>With any luck, soon there&#8217;ll be none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC Comics announced today it was abandoning the Comics Code, which makes it seem as if the organization that has cast a pall over the industry since 1954 is on its way out. So it&#8217;s the perfect time to dig into my vault and pull out a 1976 letter written by Gerry Conway (during his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,25,32,20],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-comics-code","tag-gerry-conway","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}