Comics Code Authority

The March 2011 comics from DC have something missing that has been on DC covers for 56 years - the seal of approval from the Comics Code Authority. A remnant of Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent scare of the early fifties the code had arguably lost any relevance long ago.

The first Detective Comics issue with the seal was 217 (March 1955) and for 656 issues the seal remained, although much shrunk in the last years. The Batman story, "The Mental Giant of Gotham City!", from that comic happens to be one of the early reprints in Batman Annual 3 (Summer 1962), which, of course, has the seal of approval.

Batman and Robin are discussed in Seduction of the Innocent. Below are pages from the British edition.

London: Museum Press, 1955