The Comics Code Authority was supposed to "clean up" comics after the Seduction of the Innocent scare of the 1950s, but sometimes they took it to
ridiculous levels!
Over at our brother blog,
Crime & Punishment™, we presented a tale of a secret agent in Iran as shown
HERE.
Pretty standard stuff, nothing too violent or sexy.
No blood, gore, or gratuitous "headlights".
We noted it had been reprinted a couple of years later, so we checked the reprint to see if the printing was cleaner on that version.
Imagine our surprise to discover
numerous alterations to
both text
and art in the reprint (as well as a nifty new cover)!
The original had been published in
Quality Comics' T-Man # 3 (1952), the reprint in
T-Man #31 (1956).
The original was
pre-Code, the reprint was
post-Code.
So we decided to present
both versions, albeit a week apart due to an
already-scheduled Sherlock Holmes story.
HERE's the annotated reprint.
Contrast and compare for yourself!
