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• Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals. • If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity. • Policemen, judges, government officials, and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority. • Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation. • In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds. • Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, the gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated. • No comic magazine shall use the words "horror" or "terror" in its title. • All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted. • All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated. • Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader. • Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited. • Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden. • Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure. • Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable. • Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities. • Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Rape scenes, as well as sexual abnormalities, are unacceptable. • Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested. • Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden. • Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.

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