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How did this get by the Comic Code Authority?

MoonKnight1
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Holy cow! Uh...what is Alf doing to that poor seal? Is this a kids book or a Furry's fantasy? I, I feel like I need to stick a sharpened spoon into my eyes to get rid of that image.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:32:02 PM

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Well, dirty minds think dirty thoughts. Not that it's not suggestive, though.

I'd say he's trying to hold on to a slippery seal, while he's telling someone off-panel to hurry up (for whatever reason he's holding the seal for, but that's the hook on this cover, you have to buy it to find out).

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:46:04 PM

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MoonKnight1 wrote:

How did this get by the Comic Code Authority?

The unbelievable awesomeness over-rides all codes and rules?

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Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:21:54 PM

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As if the seal thing weren't enough, he's also doing some Michael Jackson-style baby dangling in the top left corner:

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Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:18:10 AM

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It all depends on how you interpret it. Your never know what was and wasn't appropriate for the code.

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BurningDoom wrote:

Well, dirty minds think dirty thoughts. Not that it's not suggestive, though.

I'd say he's trying to hold on to a slippery seal, while he's telling someone off-panel to hurry up (for whatever reason he's holding the seal for, but that's the hook on this cover, you have to buy it to find out).

Cover says "do no buy if safety seal is missing". So Alf is holding onto the safety seal, and he's telling us to "hurry up, already" and buy it before the seal gets away.

By the way, the issue gets it's special line-item listing in Overstreet because of the risqué cover, and books out at $12 (as of two years ago, anyway).

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Thundercron wrote:

BurningDoom wrote:

Well, dirty minds think dirty thoughts. Not that it's not suggestive, though.

I'd say he's trying to hold on to a slippery seal, while he's telling someone off-panel to hurry up (for whatever reason he's holding the seal for, but that's the hook on this cover, you have to buy it to find out).

Cover says "do no buy if safety seal is missing". So Alf is holding onto the safety seal, and he's telling us to "hurry up, already" and buy it before the seal gets away.

Oh, yeah. Pretty obvious there, now.

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ComicReaderBatman wrote:

It all depends on how you interpret it. Your never know what was and wasn't appropriate for the code.

I might be misinterpreting ComicReaderBatman's point, here, but it seems worth pointing out that this panel is from one of the issues of Amazing Spider-Man famously DISapproved by the Comics Code Authority (which was, after all, merely enforcing rules drawn up by the publishers themselves). Also seems worth noting that the disapproved storyline was reprinted WITH Authority approval in Marvel Tales 191 (Sept. 1986), years after the publishers revised the Code to permit mention of drugs.

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BurningDoom wrote:

Thundercron wrote:

BurningDoom wrote:

Well, dirty minds think dirty thoughts. Not that it's not suggestive, though.

I'd say he's trying to hold on to a slippery seal, while he's telling someone off-panel to hurry up (for whatever reason he's holding the seal for, but that's the hook on this cover, you have to buy it to find out).

Cover says "do no buy if safety seal is missing". So Alf is holding onto the safety seal, and he's telling us to "hurry up, already" and buy it before the seal gets away.

Oh, yeah. Pretty obvious there, now.

OK, mystery solved. Now how do you explain this?

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MoonKnight1 wrote:

BurningDoom wrote:

Thundercron wrote:

BurningDoom wrote:

Well, dirty minds think dirty thoughts. Not that it's not suggestive, though.

I'd say he's trying to hold on to a slippery seal, while he's telling someone off-panel to hurry up (for whatever reason he's holding the seal for, but that's the hook on this cover, you have to buy it to find out).

Cover says "do no buy if safety seal is missing". So Alf is holding onto the safety seal, and he's telling us to "hurry up, already" and buy it before the seal gets away.

Oh, yeah. Pretty obvious there, now.

OK, mystery solved. Now how do you explain this?

Good lord.

My next question--how did you find this cover?

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Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:41:26 PM

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How about this one. I love the look on the fox's face.

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Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:43:35 PM

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Or this classic from Archie Comics

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Saturday, November 16, 2013 5:53:35 PM

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Thundercron wrote:

MoonKnight1 wrote:

BurningDoom wrote:

Thundercron wrote:

BurningDoom wrote:

Well, dirty minds think dirty thoughts. Not that it's not suggestive, though.

I'd say he's trying to hold on to a slippery seal, while he's telling someone off-panel to hurry up (for whatever reason he's holding the seal for, but that's the hook on this cover, you have to buy it to find out).

Cover says "do no buy if safety seal is missing". So Alf is holding onto the safety seal, and he's telling us to "hurry up, already" and buy it before the seal gets away.

Oh, yeah. Pretty obvious there, now.

OK, mystery solved. Now how do you explain this?

Good lord.

My next question--how did you find this cover?

That was a Pre-Cu.....uh, PreCode issue Tongue

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