10 Comic Books Deemed Too Hot to Handle

10 Comic Books Deemed Too Hot to Handle

The name of the 1954 book by psychologist Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. It wasn't a love story or an erotic thriller, either. He argued that it was an exposé of a product harmful to young people's mental health worldwide. Those violent and suggestive comic comics were his preferred target audience. He asserted that by exposing their young readers to violence and sex, these scandalous journals fostered misbehaviour. He bent facts and other data to match his idea when they contradicted it. Although his accusations were absurd, his assertions concerned parents, educators, and politicians. Publishers started to filter their titles so that the contents would be deemed acceptable by the Comics Code Authority (CCA), which was established in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America, and they also contributed to the comic book industry's voluntary self-policing. Surprisingly, some publishers, including the biggest and best-known in the business—Marvel Comics and DC Comics—continued to censor their own works even after publishers voluntarily withdrew from the censorship programme. These 10 comics were thought to be too hot to handle. They were consequently censored by their own publishers.

By Paul Smith

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10 King Conan

King Conan (2022), published by Marvel Comics, introduces a new character named Matoaka in the second issue of volume 2. She angered Native Americans with both her name and her attire, which included a brass bra, breechcloth, and matching neck rings. Powhatan's daughter was "sexualized" in the artwork, and Native American culture was taken. The historical Pocahontas preferred to be referred to as Matoaka; Pocahontas was a pet name. Native Americans were insulted by the character's ancestry as well. The fictitious Matoaka's history claims that she was banished from her native South America because of her love for an explorer from another nation. She then told him where her nation's treasure was, which in turn caused her own people to be raped and pillaged. Another relevant cause for Kelly Lynn D'Angelo's and other Native Americans' displeasure was summarized in a Twitter reply by the Haudenosaunee writer. "Our murdered & missing indigenous women TODAY are affected by the sexualization of a genuine little girl who was raped and died." Jason Aaron, the editor of the comic book, expressed regret for how the character was portrayed. In order to make amends, he stated that he would give the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center his compensation for the offending episode and that the character's name and appearance will be changed for the remainder of the miniseries as well as in all digital and collected editions.

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9 DC Giant-Sized Superman

Walmart and DC Comics signed an exclusive deal for the sale of reprints of original stories, some of which are gathered in issues 9 and 10 of DC's Giant-Sized Superman (2018–2019). However, Walmart asked that some alterations be made to the original artwork created by the late Michael Turner because it thought some of his female characters' clothing choices were a little too suggestive and wanted to protect its customers. Artemis's thong-style bodysuit's "material," which appeared to be latex in a Superman/Batman issue, stretched to encompass her hips, lower buttocks, and upper thighs. In a copy of Supergirl from Krypton, Superman hoists Artemis into the air while strangling her. The censored version of the comic book cover still features the choking, but Artemis' original outfit is gone. Once more, its "material" has been increased; this time, it now extends to a large portion of her upper thighs.

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8 Heroes in Crisis

If depicting choking was deemed okay, it appears that the same might be said for showing a villain who is bleeding to death on the ground. Poison Ivy is depicted bleeding from the side of her head and a sliced wrist on the cover of issue 7 of the Heroes in Crisis series (2019). Five individuals complained that the Poison Ivy image was excessively sexual, as Andrew Rodriguez notes, and DC changed the cover when the image was "leaked online somehow." Her bare cleavage wasn't acceptable, but her blood was. Her dress is stretched to hide her offensive bosom in the updated version of Turner's artwork. Oddly, the floor mat disappeared throughout the procedure and the distinctive green colour of her clothing changed to blue. Her hair has now covered the blood beneath her head, and the blood around her wrist has been shaped to resemble a red ribbon.

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7 Miracleman

After Alan Moore took over writing duties for the comic in 1982, the first issue of Miracleman (2014) was marked for modification, changing the protagonist into an antihero who engaged in progressively dark adventures throughout the remainder of the series' run. The comic's digital edition needed some adjustments when Marvel Comics took over in 2009, according to the publisher's editor. In the end, the uncensored and censored versions of the comic were both published. The former was released as Miracleman: Parental Advisory Edition #1 with a 17+ age restriction (2014). The cause of the uproar? One of its protagonists had the audacity to expose their buttocks. Underwear has been added to the version that has been edited.

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6 Spider-Woman

The popular artist Milo Manara, whose works are noted for their erotic tendencies, sexualized the main character when he portrayed her on a variant cover for Spider-Woman, issue 1, in 2014. The female wall-crawler sneaks over the top of a building while crouching on her hands and knees with her legs spread apart. The number of skyscrapers behind her indicates the apparent height of her climb. Her well-known outfit is depicted in pastel tones and is more pink and light peach than the traditional red and gold. Despite the fact that her suggestive posture suggests movement, it is unclear exactly what kind of action she is trying to convey. When enough people objected to Manara's portrayal as potentially obscene, Marvel's editor-in-chief Axel Alonso apologized and clarified that the variant cover was for a limited edition of the comic book intended for collectors. The firm was alright with keeping the artist's interpretation of Spider-Woman because of this. Manara's interpretation of the character was purchased by a collector at auction for $37,000.

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5 Batman

Readers were stunned by the full-frontal nudity in the debut issue of the Batman: Damned series (2018–1019), which was published under the company's adult-oriented DC Black Label banner. From the waist down, the Caped Crusader is visible, his nakedness obvious but with details obscured by a dark shadow crossing him in one panel. The only indication of his penis is a few lines that define a portion of the organ and are still visible despite the shadow. The DC executives came to the conclusion that nudity is inappropriate, even for their mature line of comics, after hearing from the fans of the comic book hero. Future printings of the comic book will not even hint at Batman's genitalia, and just like the printed edition, the digital version will replace the offending panel with one in which Batman's anatomy is completely obscured by the shadow. DC said that censoring the image was the proper decision because Batman's exhibitionism didn't truly advance the plot.

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4 The Authority

From 1990 through 2018, AOL/Time Warner, the same firm that controlled DC Comics at the time, owned WildStorm, the company that published The Authority at the time. It was routinely singled out by DC for censorship. Much of this restriction was brought on by the inclusion of various characters by writers Mark Millar and artists Frank Quitely who had parallels to characters in DC's comics. Panels that had been censored were either updated or completely replaced with fresh designs. In one instance, it had been suggested that Apollo and Midnighter might be gay. However, Millar's decision to allow them to kiss in issue 27 made it clear that the two were in a relationship, making their sexuality apparent for the first time. As characters that resembled Superman and Batman, Apollo and Midnighter may have caused fans to believe that the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader had a same-gender relationship, which might have hurt the sales of DC's publications. As a result, DC may have suppressed this act. DC may have removed the image of the Engineer, the Hulk's Authority counterpart, making fun of her opponent's corpse for a similar reason. The Engineer's raised middle finger is replaced by the British "two-finger [Victory] salute" in the printed form.

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3 Batman/Catwoman

Batman/Catwoman (2021)'s seventh issue's cover, which showed the protagonist's bloody hands and face, drew criticism. Batman grabs one of the fallen by the collar and lifts him off the ground as he glares angrily at the face of the unconscious police officer as the bodies of masked officers in riot gear pile up and collapse behind him. Batman's black silhouette, like his red face and hands, stand out dramatically against the blue-gray mass of his fellow officers, who are also severely battered and unconscious. Strangely, the updated cover is, if anything, more graphic than the one it replaces. The image itself is the same. The distinction is that Batman's hands and face are only partially covered in blood, giving the impression that he is wearing gloves and a mask. The criminal fighter's hands and face are more obvious. The sight of them makes him appear to be a human being rather than a gloomy, impersonal assassin. The limp, lifeless body of the police officer that Batman picks up off the ground or any of his fellow policemen has not a drop of blood on it in the illustration on the original cover. In the censored version, he is bleeding, just like Batman, and his blood shows his weakness as a wronged person. In this instance, the original image was censored, which led to a far more dramatic and sympathetic representation of both Batman and the deceased police officers, revealing the humanity hidden beneath each of their respective masks and uniforms.

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2 Dark Knights of Steel

A complicated, convoluted plot is developed in the limited series Dark Knights of Steel (2021–2022), which is set in a parallel universe to the one of Earth. Zala-Jor-El, the sister of Superman, takes part in it by taking revenge on Green Man for killing King Jor-El at King Jefferson's request. Before going on a killing rampage in which she murders the Metal Men from the parallel universe with a fury that only she is capable of, she exacts revenge by killing the king's son herself. She kills Gold in a very horrific manner, forcing her left arm through him with such force that as it emerges through his back, it is coated in and dripping with blood. Her bleeding hand was covered by the sound effect "RNNG," which was applied to censor the drawing's severe violence. In a later panel, the same strategy is used to hide the appearance of the ship's spar through Jefferson's abdomen using a different sound effect. In writing about these prohibited panels, Zala-Jor-El, unlike her brother, has moral inhibitions regarding the use of violence for personal retribution, as Ben Sockol notes.

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1 Punisher

Punisher was initially portrayed as a ruthless, violent vigilante. Such a persona was not entirely objectionable in 1974, when he made his debut, and over the final two decades of the twentieth century. Drug abuse and crime, including murder, were both on the rise. Punisher was sympathetic since he had experienced crime firsthand. The antihero lost favour with audiences and grew less marketable as time went on. A rising number of people who are worried about gun violence disagree with The Punisher because he prefers to use an M16 automatic rifle and has frequently shown a desire to kill his enemies. Marvel started attempting to "reboot" the character in 2021 by giving the white skull emblem he wears on his black shirt horns and tusks to make it resemble the Japanese demon known as an oni and by having the Punisher engage in combat without the aid of his trusty M16 rifle or other weapons. These censorious modifications might not be well received by his supporters. Francesco Cacciatore, a senior writer for Screen Rant, is one of the writers who does not believe that Marvel will be successful in changing the character's appearance and personality. Punisher's creators neglect the reality that "the character, as he was initially created, is just not acceptable for current times" in their attempts to make him more relevant to the present.

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