Comics would work around it. They already were doing so once they moved from newsstands to dedicated comic shops. If the big two keep clinging to it, then they'll fail or go niche and the authors will try something else.
+It would have to revise or it would be replaced. Short of an ASB *making* the Big Two follow the standards to the letter (at which point, they would go under and be replaced by companies free to do as they pleased), eventually the cultural revolution would push against the censorship of the Authority and un-approved Comics would be the norm.
So, assuming the Comics Code was able to continually strongarm the Big Two, what year do you think they would each go under?
+Thought of something else. What if the code only grew in power, until it was able to either outlaw or conquer independent publishers? Could comics become a thing of the past entirely in America? (I'm trying to invoke the worst possible scenario here.)
Unlikely after the mid-70's, when photocopiers were cheap enough for anyone to publish bootleg comics. And if the Supreme Court was willing to uphold the First Amendment for the Pentagon Papers and The Progressive's hydrogen bomb article, I don't see them upholding a federal comic-book ban.
Also, no matter how lame Disney and Archie and Twinkie-Age superhero comics are, they will still be published and sold to all the kids of the Silent Majority parents who've pushed Congress to pass these laws.
Also, no matter how lame Disney and Archie and Twinkie-Age superhero comics are, they will still be published and sold to all the kids
Really should read the new series of Archie cross over comics
You win an Internet award!In Mr. Flay's Wertham-triumphant ATL, it'd be more like "Archie & Pals team up with The Wonder Twins to stop an outbreak of graffiti in Riverdale (Shape of ... a Paint-scraper! Form of ... Turpentine! ) ; then they all celebrate with delicious Hostess Fruit Pies (Jughead has three, what a pig)."