Comics and Political Correctness

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This Prince Valiant panel is from the mid 1950's , take note of the outline of her buttocks and now read the following article from goodcomics.comicbookresources.com about a cartoon drawn a decade later :
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" Jim Steranko’s run on Nick Fury was repeatedly (and fairly oddly) censored by Marvel.

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Jim Steranko was a major artist for Marvel Comics during the late 1960s, but at the same time, he and Marvel were often at odds a bit over how to handle his artwork.

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Steranko was doing the Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD co-feature in Strange Tales during the late 1960s when, in one particular panel featuring Countess Valentina (Val) Allegro De Fontaine (the sexy SHIELD agent who became Nick Fury’s paramour), Marvel actually blacked out her buttocks!

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Say Steranko, “There was a page-tall figure of Val seen from the back, and I put a lot of shine on the outfit, particularly on her buttocks. I defined the form on satin material — and they eliminated the shine. Blacked it all in because it was too hot!”

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Here’s the panel from Strange Tales #168…
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And here is Steranko’s original drawing… "

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