# What's the most erotic, non-age restricted comic, put out by DC or Marvel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292 "2004-07-22T03:11:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/1 "2004-07-22T03:11:46Z")
Well? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/2 "2004-07-22T03:16:11Z")
Dammit, you said “non-age restricted.” Sandman Mystery Theatre and Preacher both had some fun, smartly-written, tastefully-handled sex scenes, but they are both Vertigo comics (for mature readers). I guess it depends who you think draws the most attractive characters on a regular basis. I personally like the women drawn by Jim Lee, Art Adams, J. Scott Campbell, Mike Allred, and Adam Hughes, but I haven’t had crushes on comic book females since I was in elementary school. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/3 "2004-07-22T03:21:34Z")
Fine I’ll break it into two categories. Age restricted and non-age restricted. What’s the most erotic example(s) in each category? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/4 "2004-07-22T11:56:05Z")
Plenty of cheescake in _She-Hulk_. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/5 "2004-07-22T21:35:20Z")
\*Wolverine \* had a bunch of sex in the last issue. Yay, fuzzy-people smut. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/6 "2004-07-22T21:38:47Z")
Lots of gratuitous sex and violence in the **Preacher** run, and in **Hellblazer** these days. Both Vertigo books, though. Erotic, though? From Marvel or DC? Well, that eliminates **Strangers in Paradise**. **Daredevil** has had some moments in the last year. Other than that, I’m at a loss. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/7 "2004-07-22T21:49:10Z")
Well…I know for a fact the Marvel has put out swimsuit issues…Psylocke in a bikini is one of the best things I’ve ever seen in a comic book to this day… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/8 "2004-07-22T22:39:17Z")
Is _Danger Girl_ age-restricted? Yeah, the cheesecake is tongue in cheek and way over the top (and the writing sometimes veers past parody into outright stupidity), but it’s still cheesecake. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/9 "2004-07-22T22:46:56Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Is _Danger Girl_ age-restricted? > > Yeah, the cheesecake is tongue in cheek and way over the top (and the writing sometimes veers past parody into outright stupidity), but it’s still cheesecake. 🆒 Danger Girl is an all-ages comic, and it is a lot of fun (even though it’s heavily tongue-in-cheek). J. Scott Campbell draws some very attractive ladies, even if their proportions aren’t the least bit realistic. (And I have the hardcover and/or the TPB for sale, both SIGNED, if anyone wants!) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/10 "2004-07-23T00:50:11Z")
There was an issue of Green Lantern/Green Arrow in the early 70s (#84, “Peril in Plastic”) where Neal Adams’s\* drawing of Black Canary was the sexiest thing to ever appear under the comics code. It seems pretty clear she and GA were doing it. \*Adams was one of the greatest and most influential of all comic book artists; nearly all the work you see today are imitations of Adams, who was the first to draw the ultra-ripped look. But Adams actually knew anatomy amazingly well and was one of the few who could make it look good instead of grotesque. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/11 "2004-07-23T01:29:09Z")
Early Wonder Woman comics looked like Betty Page magazines. Pure dominatrix bondage. I was just watching a show on comics on History Channel or some place, and they showed some panels. The guy being interviewed said, with some amazement, “I guess they (the censors) just didn’t get it.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/12 "2004-07-23T03:45:32Z")
> [@Backwater Under\_Duck](#): > > Early Wonder Woman comics looked like Betty Page magazines. Pure dominatrix bondage. I was just watching a show on comics on History Channel or some place, and they showed some panels. The guy being interviewed said, with some amazement, “I guess they (the censors) just didn’t get it.” A lot of artists used to slide stuff in “under the radar” as it were. William Marston, the guy who created Wonder Woman, was a real life dominance/submission/bondage fan, living with two women and fathering children by both, one of whom always wore large silver bracelets that looked a lot like Wonder Woman’s. [Here’s a copiously illustrated article on Wonder Woman and Marston](http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/comics101/62.html). Moviemakers did the same thing. Check out my review of King Vidor’s 1930s epic [Sign of the Cross](http://www.jollyroper.com/banter/sign_of_the_cross.html) and my review of [Roman Scandals](http://www.jollyroper.com/fflist/roman/rs.html) from 1933. And even though these two links are from films dating from the 1930s and show no naughty bits, I wouldn’t describe them as work-safe at all. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/13 "2004-07-23T12:18:11Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > There was an issue of Green Lantern/Green Arrow in the early 70s (#84, “Peril in Plastic”) where Neal Adams’s\* drawing of Black Canary was the sexiest thing to ever appear under the comics code. It seems pretty clear she and GA were doing it. > > \*Adams was one of the greatest and most influential of all comic book artists; nearly all the work you see today are imitations of Adams, who was the first to draw the ultra-ripped look. But Adams actually knew anatomy amazingly well and was one of the few who could make it look good instead of grotesque. You tell 'em **RC** - couldn’t agree more. If anyone is interested, there is [this book](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1888054859/qid=1090584953/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-9962073-5987947?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) - Arlen Schumer’s “The Silver Age of Comic Book Art” which does a great job of showing the greats like Adams, Steranko, Infantino, Ditko, Kirby and Kane - most wouldn’t qualify for this particular post, but man, could they do great comic book art. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/14 "2004-07-25T03:32:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Plenty of cheescake in She-Hulk. > [@](#): > > Wolverine had a bunch of sex in the last issue. Yay, fuzzy-people smut. Don’t know what the OP means by age-restricted and non age-restricted, but She-Hulk is PSR (12 and up) and Wolverine is PSR+ (15 and up). Marvel All Ages (8 and up) books carry no cover rating; pretty much the only ones you’ll see are the new Marvel Age books, which are cartoon style retellings of the classic Spider-Man. The latest Supreme Power (Mature Readers), #11, features Princess Zarda nude throughout the entire issue. Though they obviously avoided any full frontal, there is some pubic hair visible in two panels. Supreme Power #10 did have a female full frontal nudity shot of Zarda, as did Outsiders #13 (No CCA symbol, DC’s indication that the title is intended for older fans), though I would doubt the sanity of anybody who found them sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-erotic-non-age-restricted-comic-put-out-by-dc-or-marvel/256292/15 "2004-07-25T04:23:56Z")
**Evil Captor** , that link was _amazing_! I’d thought immediatly of Wonder Woman when I read the thread title, but had no idea how much the old WW comics really contained!