Comic Book Ruminations
The Needle on the Newsstand: Controversial Drug Stories from Marvel, DC, and EC Comics
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Defying the censors, comics defiantly dared to confront the drug crisis head-on—and changed the medium forever.
From EC's harrowing 1954 heroin tale "The Monkey" to Stan Lee's Code-defying Spider-Man arc, Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy battling addiction on a groundbreaking cover, and Frank Miller's gritty Daredevil clashing with the Punisher amid PCP-fueled chaos, these are the highly…