will cbcs grade Faithless erotic covers?9309

Originally Posted by Bronte
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People like my dumb ass dont often look deeper than the cover.

As usual common sense prevails.


Hansi: The Girl who Loved the Swastika is an American one-shot comic book, published in 1973 by Spire Christian Comics and drawn by Al Hartley. It is a story set in Nazi Germany in 1938 that condemns Nazism and Communism and promotes the Bible. It is based on the real-life story of Maria Anne Hirschmann

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Originally Posted by Bronte
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People like my dumb ass dont often look deeper than the cover.

As usual common sense prevails.


Hansi: The Girl who Loved the Swastika is an American one-shot comic book, published in 1973 by Spire Christian Comics and drawn by Al Hartley. It is a story set in Nazi Germany in 1938 that condemns Nazism and Communism and promotes the Bible. It is based on the real-life story of Maria Anne Hirschmann

All true, but the debate is about the brand being associated distasteful content. New customers looking at the slab aren't going to know it's against the Nazis.

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It attaches their name and in some way perhaps endorses the content or at the very least the PERCEPTION is CBCS endorses the content. I completely understand why a company would choose not to grade these books.

How would grading them endorse the product? CBCS/CGC are third party grading company nothing they grade is being endorsed by them or in need of their endorsement.

If you owned a grading company would you attach your brand or logo to Neo-Nazi propaganda literature?

An extreme example but it's about controversial material a corporation doesn't want attach itself too.

Definitely not! I would never want my name associated with anything that implied I endorse Nazi values.

http://www.comiclink.com/itemdetail.asp?back=%2Fitems%2Easp%3Fid%3D5260&id=1312374

Exactly! that's why this book was graded, its an anti-nazi story.

If a comic has a cover with graphic nudity and sexual acts, but it's about the virtues of celibacy... then it's fair game for grading?

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It attaches their name and in some way perhaps endorses the content or at the very least the PERCEPTION is CBCS endorses the content. I completely understand why a company would choose not to grade these books.

How would grading them endorse the product? CBCS/CGC are third party grading company nothing they grade is being endorsed by them or in need of their endorsement.

If you owned a grading company would you attach your brand or logo to Neo-Nazi propaganda literature?

An extreme example but it's about controversial material a corporation doesn't want attach itself too.

Definitely not! I would never want my name associated with anything that implied I endorse Nazi values.

http://www.comiclink.com/itemdetail.asp?back=%2Fitems%2Easp%3Fid%3D5260&id=1312374

Exactly! that's why this book was graded, its an anti-nazi story.

If a comic has a cover with graphic nudity and sexual acts, but it's about the virtues of celibacy... then it's fair game for grading?

No, because it's the graphic nudity or sexual acts that the company has the issue with not the story itself. That's why swastikas on their own are fine but not stories glorifying the virtues of what the swastika means.

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I think we can agree that a story condemning distasteful subject matter does not itself make it distasteful right? And showing graphic or extreme nudity, even with virtuous intentions is not the same.

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I think we can agree that a story condemning distasteful subject matter does not itself make it distasteful right? And showing graphic or extreme nudity, even with virtuous intentions is not the same.

Not necessarily. The only reason that comic is remembered is because people think it's promoting Nazis.

If you had a comic with the "N" word on the cover, it wouldn't matter what content was inside. It would be offensive. Some people feel that way about the Swastika. People want to remove a carving of Confederate soldiers off of Stone Mountain in Georgia. It's the largest chunk of exposed granite in the world and one side of it has s huge carving on it. It's associated with racism, so people want to destroy it. The swastika is associated with genocide. People don't want to see it.