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1 The Comics Code
Parents, psychologists, and lawmakers have been trying to control the content of comic books for even longer than they've been trying to control video games. Test your knowledge of the history of censorship in the U.S. comics industry.
Tough
10 Q
CellarDoor
Jun 23 08
402 plays
2 Origins and History of the American Comic Strip
You'll marvel at the glitter and the greed, be astonished by the soap operas and the censorship and perhaps even find a bit of humor too as we examine the lurid history of the funny papers.
Average
10 Q
uglybird
Sep 25 05
1785 plays
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Some sample questions from this category:

* Who is both the earliest and longest running cavemen in newspaper comics' history and has the distinction of having landed on the moon?
* In the 1950s, in his comic strip, Walt Kelly portrayed the then powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy as an unreasonable and malignant bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey and depicted McCarthy's protégé Richard Nixon as a sleazy goat. What was the name of the strip illustrated by this courageous cartoonist?
* Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" debuted in 1987. The strip became extraordinarily popular. In 1992, following a sabbatical, Watterson made a demand for which he was roundly criticized by cartoonist Bill Keane and multiple newspaper editors. What was his "outrageous" demand?
* Topics that are freely and openly presented in other areas of the newspaper may be controversial in the comic pages. Newspapers have refused to publish comic strips involving which of the following?


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