What does CCA stand for?

Comics Code Authority

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There was no sex, no violence and no foul language--the Comics Code Authority had already sanitized every single page of each issue.

Readers, challenge yourselves!

Until this strip, underground comics were primarily outrageous, derisive and raucous attacks on puritanical and puerile comic book conventions imposed by the infamous Comics Code Authority (the industry's self-regulatory body) on the comics publishers during the McCarthy era.

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Sensing a losing battle, the publishers developed the now infamous Comics Code Authority to censor their own content.

DANGER LURKS IN THESE PAGES WHAT THE BATTLE OVER COMIC BOOKS SAYS ...

The Comics Code Authority was founded in 1954 to act as a censor for comics.

The code

Since 1954, when Frederic Wertham (Seduction of the Innocent) claimed that comic books caused delinquency and the Comics Code Authority, with guidelines on acceptable content, began as a self-imposed regulation of the comic book industry, comics have been a source of both joy and controversy.

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and enjoys a singular status: The Comics Code Authority found his style so objectionable that it will not approve any title he draws.

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Any comic that didn't receive the Seal of Approval from the Comics Code Authority would not be displayed by wholesalers.

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