Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-43835557-20190915154903/@comment-1038387-20190915160909

People that say they were never for kids don't understand comics. The misconception here is that history is this simple.

Comics is a medium, not a genre. "Comics are for kids" is like saying "Books are for adults".

Comics started out as newspaper cartoons for all audiences interested in a quick joke in between the news, and blew up into full magazines by the thirties. But there were funny titles, there were action titles, there were romance titles. There were titles that had a bit of everything. Those were definitely marketed towards kids and teenagers.

Also, "Marvel" and "DC" as we know them today did not exist for most of the Golden Age.

My guess why it's rated 12+ is because the style of writing was different in those days, and younger kids might not understand it.