User blog comment:20thCentFopp/Ant-Man: The Zeitgeist Superhero/@comment-1895174-20131120124256/@comment-4652104-20131120131721

If you look at the popular imagery from the 50s, it's a white man's world. The 60s were a great time of change, but change comes slowly. And at various speeds. Comic books were obviously pulp designed for white boys and there was no real filter at the time. Such racist imagery may have gone out of fashion, but if that was the image the artist had in his head, or if he simply believed that was what readers (white boys) expect/appreciate, there was no person or reason to tell him this is wrong. The awareness that this is wrong only really came with the civil rights revolution. Even in the north. Northeners may not burn you alive for being black, but would have no objections to making racist jokes.