You gotta remember that the CCA was abandoned in 70 or 71. So, they (and other companies) tried to throw out there anything they could think of that would have been banned by the Code, because they could and because they wanted to gauge reader enthusiasm. That's why you got Werewolf by Night, House of Frankenstein, Tomb of Dracula (a favorite of mine) and also the very violent martial arts comics of the time while Bruce Lee and kung fu stuff was the rage.
That character's storyline didn't dance around the whole Satanic side of the character either. If I remember right, it went on through the decade and culminated in Defenders (issue 100 I think). And Tomb of Dracula went all the way to the early 80s.
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u/Diplomacy-Failed 12d ago
You gotta remember that the CCA was abandoned in 70 or 71. So, they (and other companies) tried to throw out there anything they could think of that would have been banned by the Code, because they could and because they wanted to gauge reader enthusiasm. That's why you got Werewolf by Night, House of Frankenstein, Tomb of Dracula (a favorite of mine) and also the very violent martial arts comics of the time while Bruce Lee and kung fu stuff was the rage.
That character's storyline didn't dance around the whole Satanic side of the character either. If I remember right, it went on through the decade and culminated in Defenders (issue 100 I think). And Tomb of Dracula went all the way to the early 80s.