Today we look at the greatest talent factory the world has ever seen, and the strange fact that most American comics fans haven't ever read it...

We've covered the rules. We've met the people who broke them. For the last in this series on the CCA, let’s look at how we got here in the first place. The origin story of the Comics Code is equal parts farce and tragedy — a moral panic stoked by a deeply questionable book, amplified by a Senate subcommittee looking for headlines, and resolved in the worst possible way for everyone except Archie Comics.

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Last week we met the Comics Code - 41 rules designed to sanitize an entire medium. This week: the people who looked at those rules and decided they were more of a suggestion. Across every genre - romance, sci-fi, superheroes, crime - the Code tried to flatten comics into something safe… It did not succeed.

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