Welcome to the 915th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our first legend, learn how the famous Green Lantern/Green Arrow drug issue ALSO came about due to the United States government asking for an anti-drugs issue.One of the moments in comic book history that I have covered the most over the years in Comic Book Legends Revealed has been the situation that led to the Comics Code finally agreeing to allow comic books to contain anti-drug messages in them instead of a general ban on the depiction of drugs period (of course, the hilarious thing about that “ban” is that it was not always applied by the Comics Code Authority, as at least one issue with drugs in it as a plot point had been approved by the Comic Code). The interesting thing is that the Code didn’t have a specific rule about drugs, but rather, it used the following section to ban drug depiction in comics:Lee didn’t want to wait, so he just decided to do the issues anyway and just not have the Comics Code on them. He later talked about it with Roy Thomas in TwoMorrows’ Comic Book Artist #2:
Welcome to the 915th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our first legend, learn how the famous Green Lantern/Green Arrow drug issue ALSO came about due to the United States government asking for an anti-drugs issue.
One of the moments in comic book history that I have covered the most over the years in Comic Book Legends Revealed has been the situation that led to the Comics Code finally agreeing to allow comic books to contain anti-drug messages in them instead of a general ban on the depiction of drugs period (of course, the hilarious thing about that “ban” is that it was not always applied by the Comics Code Authority, as at least one issue with drugs in it as a plot point had been approved by the Comic Code). The interesting thing is that the Code didn’t have a specific rule about drugs, but rather, it used the following section to ban drug depiction in comics:
Lee didn’t want to wait, so he just decided to do the issues anyway and just not have the Comics Code on them. He later talked about it with Roy Thomas in TwoMorrows’ Comic Book Artist #2:
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