Editing Comics Code Authority (section)

== 1954 Code criteria ==
The following shows the complete Code as it stood in 1954:<ref name=CodeText>[[s:Comic book code of 1954|Code for Editorial Matter: General standards – Part A, Code of the Comics Magazine Association of America, Inc."]]</ref>
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* Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
* Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, the gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
* Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
* Policemen, judges, government officials, and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority.
* All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
* No comic magazine shall use the words "horror" or "terror" in its title.
* All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
* Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
* In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
* If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.
* Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
* Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
* Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
* Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.
* Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.
* Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure.
* Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Rape scenes, as well as sexual abnormalities, are unacceptable.
* Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
* Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.
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