We've covered the rules. We've met the people who broke them. For the last in this series on the CCA, let’s look at how we got here in the first place. The origin story of the Comics Code is equal parts farce and tragedy — a moral panic stoked by a deeply questionable book, amplified by a Senate subcommittee looking for headlines, and resolved in the worst possible way for everyone except Archie Comics.

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