mcdonald@smu.UUCP (10/02/84)
Re Violence in DC:
I recently picked up an issue of Detective out of nostalgia, not having
read any DC for several years now. Quite frankly, I was astonished.
I remembered DC as being mostly designed for the very young.
The latest Detective has
pages and pages of crawling man trailing blood
weird and convoluted sexuality
(not graphic, but bizarrely motivated)
half-page panel of a head being blown off at close range
This carries the CCA stamp. X-Men and New Mutants don't.
Wasn't the CCA originally instituted to censor excessive gore?
(If anyone is interested in the text of the Code I expect to have a copy soon.)