Apropos of nothing, here (via Wikipedia) are some choice highlights from the original 1954 version of the Comics Code.

• 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.
  
• 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, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
  
• No comic magazine shall use the word 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. Violent love 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.
  

No wonder all the boomers freaked out in the Sixties.