Comic book collectors

[Ravine]

Amazing Spider-Man #129; pencilled by Ross Andru [[whose work I hated.)
Amazing Spider-Man #96 is noteworthy because it lacked the "Approved by the Comics Code Authority" stamp [[which, basically, was just a bunch of bullshit, anyway.)
The reason for the non-stampage?
The story featured heroin use and an overdose. It is helpful to consider that #96 came out in the very early 70's, when comics were still skittish about featuring anything remotely scandalous. That skittishness [[and the origin of the phony-baloney "CCA" stamp) was a reaction to the huge uproar, quite a few years before, about the heavy-handed gore and general luridness found prominently in EC Comics.

[Ravine]

Well, why stop with that. Let's do some more.

So then, speaking of heroin in comics, which DC character was revealed to be a heroin user, not long after that Spider-Man issue about which I just rambled on?
Bonus point: Which highly respected artist did the work for the DC story?

[alsodave]

Well, why stop with that. Let's do some more.

So then, speaking of heroin in comics, which DC character was revealed to be a heroin user, not long after that Spider-Man issue about which I just rambled on?
Bonus point: Which highly respected artist did the work for the DC story?

Speedy--Green Arrow's partner in the 70s.

I believe it was the great Neal Adams who did the artwork.

[Fury13]

Amazing Spider-Man #129; pencilled by Ross Andru [[whose work I hated.)
Amazing Spider-Man #96 is noteworthy because it lacked the "Approved by the Comics Code Authority" stamp [[which, basically, was just a bunch of bullshit, anyway.)
The reason for the non-stampage?
The story featured heroin use and an overdose. It is helpful to consider that #96 came out in the very early 70's, when comics were still skittish about featuring anything remotely scandalous. That skittishness [[and the origin of the phony-baloney "CCA" stamp) was a reaction to the huge uproar, quite a few years before, about the heavy-handed gore and general luridness found prominently in EC Comics.

Ding ding ding! You win the prize...

True, the Comics Code stamp was BS in the end, but in those days it was taken seriously, for the reasons you cite. The initial scandal that led to the Code and its stamp of approval was the Congressional investigation into juvenile delinquency [[thought to have been partially caused by blood and gore in comics), circa 1954; that furor drove EC to discontinue its horror and sci-fi books and concentrate on Mad Magazine.

I remember well when Amazing Spider-Man #96 came out. I remember gawking at the blank space in the upper right-hand corner of the cover where the stamp usually was. It was a huge deal; I guess there was some talk that parents wouldn't let their kids buy that issue. But the time was right to challenge the Comics Code and the payoff was more creativity in content.

I wish I could answer your DC question, but I never collected any DC titles.

[terryh]

Ding ding ding! You win the prize...

True, the Comics Code stamp was BS in the end, but in those days it was taken seriously, for the reasons you cite. The initial scandal that led to the Code and its stamp of approval was the Congressional investigation into juvenile delinquency [[thought to have been partially caused by blood and gore in comics), circa 1954; that furor drove EC to discontinue its horror and sci-fi books and concentrate on Mad Magazine.

I remember well when Amazing Spider-Man #96 came out. I remember gawking at the blank space in the upper right-hand corner of the cover where the stamp usually was. It was a huge deal; I guess there was some talk that parents wouldn't let their kids buy that issue. But the time was right to challenge the Comics Code and the payoff was more creativity in content.

I wish I could answer your DC question, but I never collected any DC titles.

I happen to have #96..I thought it was an LSD flipout

[Ravine]

Sorry for posting a trivia question and then forgetting to return.

Terryh is correct. I had that part of the story wrong. The kid thinking that he could fly from a building sure does imply that the drug was of the hallucinogenic variety.
Clearly, I am my own dope.

Alsodave is correct with both parts of his answer to my last question.