A cartoon that illustrates a dream of the power mad liberal.
There was already a voluntary code by publishers which didn’t stop Kefauver’s Senate witchhunt on juvenile delinquency. EC was. Member of that one.
After the Senate hearings, the new ‘voluntary’ code banned words in the titles of EC publications (like ‘Weird’). If you were not code approved you were almost certain to not be distributed to newsstands (Dell did not comply but they held publishing rights to many popular tv shows movies and cartoon characters including Disney who did not make their own comics at the time).
Decades later Al and Tipper Gore would use the same angle to get on the natiomal stage in time for the 1988 presidential season.
Al Gore Sr. had missed his shot at the Presidential ticket due to the strategies of his fellow Tennessee senator. And Al and Tipper have ignored the cesspool that has happened to the culture since PMRC. They trashed careers and got store clerks arrested merely for political advancement. And we are supposed to think he’s sincere about climate change? It’s a shakedown racket and about control,