Books that couldn't be published today 1 1

[FlyingDonut]

The board's gotten too damn serious

 

A little levity - how about some titles that just couldn't get published today...

 

like this one:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=714613817

 

or this one:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=715812410

 

or of course, from my personal collection:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=716475881

 

just a bit of funning. Any others?

[clobberintime]

Yeah - if you look at some of those Schomburg war covers just imagine what he could do today! The Torch burning up a guy with a diaper on his head or namor pulverizing a retarded looking Saddam or something. That comic book company that published anything like that today would probably be put out of business by all the lawsuits from the various offended parties.

[blowout]

.......any book published before the days of 'political correctness' is bound to spring up something now considered unpublishable...................

 

.......or more likely subject of a libel case..........

 

.........which i don't think is a neccessarily good thing.........

[chrisfuccione]

I don't know the navy action one could still be published. They are doing up G. I. JOE again as a title? CHRIS

[Guest]

The derogatory terms for minorities and ethnic groups would be out.....

 

But in their place are books like The Pro, Preacher etc., which would have likely caused Wertham to have a seizure.

[Darthdiesel]

The Pro is Ennis at his misogynistic peak...but the issue was hilarious

[Guest]

I grabbed it on the rack, looked at the first two or three pages, started laughing, and quickly tossed it on my buy pile.

 

Have yet to read it, though...

[homer-migration]

Since you're on that theme, how about Sgt Rock?

[homer-migration]

But then again ther's also: Iron Man, Man of Steel, Neil The Horse (from Bullseye #2 - Charlton); Private Buck (Dell Golden-Age); Fruitman Special (Harvey Silver-Age), and of course Whiz.

[Aweandlorder]

Doubt Marvel would even publish a cover like this today

 

[ygogolak]

2 hours ago, Aweandlorder said:

Doubt Marvel would even publish a cover like this today

 

Um, yea

 

[Dave2739]

Wow, until today the last post in this thread was 15 years ago.

[comicdonna]

This thread is 15 years old. 

[justafan]

13 minutes ago, comicdonna said:

This thread is 15 years old. 

This song is six words long.

[Get Marwood & I]

22 minutes ago, justafan said:

This song is six words long.

Work is a four letter word.

[Aweandlorder]

1 hour ago, ygogolak said:

Um, yea

 

"Like this" meaning cap slugging Kim Jung, a prominent Muslim radical terrorist or any other American hater. 

Cause you know. Nazis are our only haters 

[namisgr]

'Cause you know, World War II.

[szav]

Cool...15 year old thread.  Aside from all the obvious racist stuff you couldn't get away with anymore... I think we're a bit too PC and overly sensitive to allow something like this.  What with all the anti-bullying, preserve self esteem at all costs, etc. etc., I imagine some group would protest/picket the corporate headquarters of whoever published something like this.  From First Love Illustrated #3:

 

 

Edited October 2, 2017 by szavisca

[Robot Man]

How about these?

[Scrooge]

This would be a winning ad -