Yeah, I’ve seen people talk about the Comics Code ruining comic books completely, but if the Twilight Zone was anything to go by, it reinforced how interesting material could still be expressed without necessarily needing gore and things like that. Not to say that outright censorship of more taboo topics was the best outcome, in spite of any of the best intentions of complaints against comics at the time, but certainly not a mark of impossibility in regards to telling good stories either.
Link to the book:
Mysterious Stories 007