![]() Many people of all genders have argued for decades that Wonder Woman (and Supergirl, and Elektra, and any number of other iconic heroines) should get pants. Wertham took potshots at Diana for being canonically into bondage (absolutely true) and a lesbian (borderline true? The subtext is unsubtle, even if to this day DC tends to be cagey about her bisexuality), but though the content of her comics changed to be more marriage-focused and generally far less independent of men as a whole, her look stayed the same.īack in the comics, things puttered along until 2010, when we got a really controversial costume, designed by Jim Lee. When I wrote about Catwoman’s costume history earlier this year, I noted that Selina disappeared from comics for about a decade because she was too gleefully lawless for the height of the CCA. ![]() In response, the comics industry formed the Comics Code Authority, which granted or denied comics approval based on their adhering to its rules, which forbade anything too violent or sexy, as well as disrespect of authority and conservative social mores. Frederic Wertham and his book Seduction of the Innocent. Short version, in case you’re not familiar: by the early 1950s, there was a widespread parental backlash against the violence and nihilism in comic books and their supposed negative effects on children, spurred in part by psychologist Dr. Interestingly, her costume wasn’t really affected by the onset of the Comics Code Authority.
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