Even before the famous 1954 Congressional hearings, crime comics were drawing increasing attention in some quarters as being over violent, and a bad influence on our youth.
So in 1948,
Lev Gleason Publications announced their own preemptive proto-
Code (click to embiggen):
Of course, this was largely PR, and not actually followed too faithfully. For example:
And in the very same issue in which this was published:
Man,
someone didn't get the memo.
Of course, you could make the argument that insisting that all of your ultra-violence be blood-free is worse for the kiddies than showing blood.
A closer look at a few of the other prohibitions in comics devoted to showing people get killed, and then the killers get killed:
Ah, the
Frank Cho rule!
"
Relatively varied in bone structure"?!?!
WTF?!? Is that some kind of code word for "
make some of them realistic heavy-set?"
Don't tell that to
Geoff Johns or
Dan DiDio...
So much for
Joker stories...
From Desperado #1 (1948)
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