Me, too. Was there any controversy surrounding that release? At the time I only read the funny pages.
Nope, not really. In the mid-eighties, we were still "circling the drain" of political correctness and had not yet been pulled under.
Another example of entertainment from that period is Eddie Murphy's HBO stand-up comedy specials (complete with "faggot" jokes). By 1990, that stuff was conspicuous in its absence (particularly from comedy routines).