User blog comment:Nausiated/The Comic Book Code Authority and its Effect of Westerns/@comment-4739500-20130822075716

"You look at the work Stan Lee did for Marvel though, during the height of the post CCA witchhunt and his super-heroes were perfect. Certain things couldn't be shown on panel (like character deaths) and yes, they were quite wholesome tales, but Stan at least told intelligent stories, which was something that DC failed to grasp in those eras, I figure it was easy for them to just pinch off one-off stories with no character development."

Yes this I agree with pretty much. Not that it was incredibly difficult to write more intelligent stories. But commercially it's always a risk to try something new.

Good for you for updating those old, relatively unexplored, stories.

It's a shame, for whatever reason, that superheroes dominated all US comics. (Not that horror comics are my preferred genre.) Luckily there were a few exceptions, as in Conan.