Here's a cover-featured tale from the 1950s about teen pregnancy...
...which reflects the current Repug-controlled Supreme Court's attitude towards the matter!
Illustrated by Bob Powell and scripted by an unknown writer, this tale from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #24 (1953) reflects the conservative/Repug mindset...unless Marge is their daughter, of course!
But, that's not the end of it!
Due to the Republican-created "Seduction of the Innocent" mania of the 1950s, the comic book industry created a self censorship-board, The Comics Code Authority, to avoid government censorship!
When this story was reprinted in Harvey's Hi-School Romance #52 (1956), it was extensively-modified in both story and art, beginning with the title, re-setting the venue from high school to college, and extending skirt lengths (which were scandalously-short in the original)...
But, that's not the end of it!
Due to the Republican-created "Seduction of the Innocent" mania of the 1950s, the comic book industry created a self censorship-board, The Comics Code Authority, to avoid government censorship!
When this story was reprinted in Harvey's Hi-School Romance #52 (1956), it was extensively-modified in both story and art, beginning with the title, re-setting the venue from high school to college, and extending skirt lengths (which were scandalously-short in the original)...
...and making Alan far less of a sleazy wimp than he was in the original story!
Here's where the changes become really interesting...a certain inconvenient matter has suddenly disappeared!
And a spanking-new happy ending!
It's the Republican vision of America in 1956...I mean 2022!
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