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Re: The Scorpion 4

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Downunder Dan

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Re: The Scorpion 4
« on: December 04, 2023, 01:37:02 AM »
On the cancellation of 'The Scorpion': we're all familiar with the impact on comics in America caused by the Senate Comic Book Hearings of 1954, which had Frederick Wertham as a star witness. The Comics Code spelled the end for comics like those of EC. A similar thing happened in Australia - taking a lead from the US Senate Hearings, including the Queensland Literature Board banning 'The Scorpion', apparently because the villain (lead character) always beat the police and was never punished. The largest distributor of books and magazines in Australia at the time, Gordon & Gotch, refused to distribute 'The Scorpion' at all - including to the rest of Australia that hadn't banned it. Denied a market, Alstan cancelled the book and the company never printed anything else.

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