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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9463517" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Perhaps.  Not all publishers kowtowed to the CCA, most notably Dell and Gold Key (who were already self-policing long before Wertham, in part due to the amount of material they licensed from companies like Disney - can't offend Walt) so there was still quite a lot of "funny books" and a fair bit of scifi on the market.  The Sixties and Seventies were rife with all sorts of "comix" that didn't care about the CCA or the wholesale distributors that acted as the code's de facto enforcers, although finding them was quite difficult, especially prior to comic shops booming in the 80s.  One of my uncles admitted he used to get his underground comics through the local head shop - which isn't all that surprising, really.I'm particularly pleased to see the growth of Big Two books that are aimed at actual children of late.  It's very strange that the CCA era saw them practically abandon the "funny book" market, and only now that it's gone are they leaning back into that market.  Even that's mostly in response to more trad children book sales, but at least there's some hope that enough kids will grow up reading comics to form the next generation of adult comic readers.Heh.  And that was two years ago.  I doubt the percentages are any more favorable to comics in 2024.</blockquote>