Terribly Inappropriate Comics
"Ah yes, the olden days, when girls were girls and men were men. It was a different time then, a time of innocence. A time when the simply gesture of bending over didn’t solicit laughs from an audience of onlookers, when the word “wang” was always promptly followed by “chung,” and when it was never implied that Superman was some sort of deviant.
Of course, looking back on media from these times reveals that there really not all that innocent. The following image gallery shows several comic book covers that, in hindsight, are unintentionally hilarious..."
Terribly Inappropriate Comics
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Yes, interesting how times change....
Like kids reading Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn....
Or watching Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther or old Superman cartoons where they talk about Japanese as the 'yellow horde' or 'little yellow man'...
everything is different from our perspective today... and remember this was all less than 100 years ago...
But we think we know all meanings of all the idioms and vernacular used in the Bible or Koran? Reading these books justifiying slavery, discussing incest, rape, beastiality, murder, genocide... different day and time is right.
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I actually miss "innocence". The 50's were the best decade, I believe. Society has continued to go downhill from there it seems to me. We have become far to PC and far too nit picky. We rely far too much on personal technology. Granted, there were real social issues and those needed to be solved and corrected and they have been. But where is the innocence today? Is it found in the likes of Paris Hilton? Life has gotten way too complicated for many people. Stress is much higher. I can't say the quality of life is really any better except for medical procedures, tests, medicine, etc. It sure is not as simple any longer and I miss that. Our personal freedoms are being taken away and eroded. Families live apart. Education is worse. The 21st century leaves much to be desired in many ways.
In my time as a child, we used our imaginations, read more, played with eachother, we were riding our bikes and out in the fresh air, exercising and having fun and we built and invented things. We were creative. We were never ever bored. The family ate together every single night and talked. We did things together. We shared and we learned. There were no computers, video games, 24/hour tv, cell phones or shopping malls. Our lockers were raided for Donald Duck comic books and bubble gum. Now, there are no lockers. Many schools have armed security guards and metal detectors. Backpacks are searched for guns, knives, photos of your fellow students naked, drugs, home made bombs and alcohol. I don't really consider that progress.
I think looking back at comics of old and saying wow, how unappropriate when in truth, at the time, in their place they were nothing of the sort and not meant to be. No one took them as anything else. They were entertainment, fluff, adventure of a sort and not something to be judged and analyzed to death looking for something that did not exist. Maybe we have changed far too much, become horribly jaded and cynical and that change has not always been for the good. We search for the negative everywhere. We wnat to see hidden meanings in things that are just not there, so we invent them. Look what is being made out of the Superman comic for example. It's sad. Really sad.
As for me, I still enjoy watching the old Sky King tv shows on the net and sigh when I see them. I still find value and fun in them and can escape back to a simpler, more enjoyable time. I enjoy sifting through all my old Mable King marbles and treasured baseball cards and my plane models and rememberihg all the wonderful times and experiences. The smell of real newly mowed grass and the food at a baseball game, the sunny warm day outside drawing a circle in the dirt to shoot marbles, the hours spent at night or on a rainy day building models and dreaming of flying.
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Gee ALA, that was a bit different than my childhood. I can remember reform school, jumping the fence and hiding out in a trailer down by the river, getting a job at the traveling carny, being sold into sexual slavery, spending time at San Quentin, and ending up as an unpaid mod on another site. And I thought life was good.
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Gee ALA, that was a bit different than my childhood. I can remember reform school, jumping the fence and hiding out in a trailer down by the river, getting a job at the traveling carny, being sold into sexual slavery, spending time at San Quentin, and ending up as an unpaid mod on another site. And I thought life was good.
Rambling and a bit off-topic but there was a time when comic books were thought to be evil and there was push to ban them
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Moral panic
In the 1950s politicians blamed comic books as a cause of crime, juvenile delinquency, moral degradation, drug use, and poor grades. The psychiatrist Frederic Wertham's influential bestseller Seduction of the Innocent, obsessed with sadistic and homosexual undertones in superhero comics, raised anxieties about comics. This moral panic led to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency taking an interest in comics. As a result of these concerns, schools and parent groups held public comic-book burnings, and some cities banned comics. Comics circulation went into a tailspin from which it has yet to recover.
In 1954 most of the major publishers helped found the Comics Code Authority, and drafted the Comics Code; intended, in their own words, as "...the most stringent code in existence for any communications media."
There was also a time in my childhood when we rode in the back of pickup trucks, did not wear seatbelts, rode bike until the street lights came on, etc.
We also shot bb guns eventhough they could put your eye out, played football without hydrating properly and only had 3 TV channels, if we were lucky. My dad did have a remote control for the TV, it was me or my sister.
Having said that, my parents told us how lucky we were, they walked 12 miles to school in the snow, did not have underwear and were so poor they had to eat dirt.
My how times have changed.
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Having said that, my parents told us how lucky we were, they walked 12 miles to school in the snow, did not have underwear and were so poor they had to eat dirt.
Only a 12 mile walk to school ???
Having real dirt to eat ???
Bloody lookshury, I tell ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
