Comic books were never produced in a cultural vacuum.
Publishers had to consider parents, teachers, distributors and, at various times, formal or informal censorship.
The original discussion points to differences between British and American publishing and to the restrictions placed upon comic books at different periods.
Artists consequently became skilled at implication.
Sometimes the reader did not need to see anything happen. A furious parent holding a slipper in one panel followed by the culprit sitting uncomfortably in the next told the entire story.
That was often funnier anyway.
The child’s imagination supplied the missing action.
