I only read the first paragraph, but I need to point out that the prohibition on vampires was not a law. It was an edict by the Comics Code of Authority, which was a private, self-governing body that ruled over comics. It was not governmental and had zero legal authority.
In the fifties there was an extreme backlash against comics by moral guardians who thought that comics were causing juvenile delinquency that led to congressional hearings, and in response the comics publishers as a whole decided on guidelines to forestall actual laws that would likely be even more Draconian. The rules were slowly relaxed over the sixties and seventies, but with the rise of comic book stores in the late 70s-early 80s those rules were almost entirely thrown out.
The whole reason anyone paid attention to the Comics Code Authority in the first place (aside from the early fear of government action) was that comics were almost entirely sold on racks in grocery stores or drug stores or ice cream shops or candy shops, who refused to carry anything that didn't have the Comics Code seal (an actual seal that was on the cover of every single issue released during that time period, and even into the 90s), but with the rise of dedicated comic book stores run by comic nerds who didn't really give a **** about family friendly bull****, the comics code pretty much became completely ignored.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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