History Bowdlerise / ComicBooks

* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' "manga" avoid blood and death. The books themselves are [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence exceedingly]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath violent]]. They contain cats being disembowled, cats mawled by dogs, cats having their throats slit, [[DeathOfAChild kits drowning]], [[ChildSoldiers three moon old kits being killed in battle]], etc. In one scene in the books [[spoiler:Scourge injures Tigerstar so badly that he bleeds out from bloodloss and he looses ''all nine'' of his lives at once from the graveness of the injuries]]. The manga depiction? Barely any blood at all. [=TokyoPOP=] has enforced this, such as making one of the artist's censor a dead rabbit because they thought it was too unnerving for kids.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' has censored reprints for being too violent, sexual, or too [[ValuesDissonance outdated]]. For example, one issue of ''Betty and Veronica'' had the girls say that perfume "turns [me] on". The reprints replace the line with them saying it "drives [me] crazy".

* The 2010s Marvel reprint of the Alan Moore era of ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' left all the nudity, sex, and incredibly graphic violence uncut, but asterisked out the comic's two uses of the word "nigger", once in Evelyn Cream's internal monologue when he worries about falling into superstition, and the second time when Bates [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain insults]] the African-American hero Huey Moon during the final battle.

* The Creator/MarvelComics reprints of ''ComicBook/FishPolice'' removed most of the profanity.

* Another French comic about a girl raised in the wild, ''Pyrénée'', might never see publication in English because the kid is starkers.

* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' "manga" avoid blood and death. The books themselves are [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence exceedingly]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath violent]]. They contain cats being disembowled, cats mawled by dogs, cats having their throats slit, [[DeathOfAChild kits drowning]], [[ChildSoldiers three moon old kits being killed in battle]], etc. In one scene in the books [[spoiler:Scrouge injures Tigerstar so badly that he bleeds out from bloodless and he looses ''all nine'' of his lives at once from the graveness of the injuries]]. The manga depiction? Barely any blood at all.

* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' "manga" avoid blood and death. The books themselves are [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence exceedingly]] [[FamilyFriendlyDeath violent]]. They contain cats being disembowled, cats mawled by dogs, cats having their throats slit, [[DeathOfAChild kits drowning]], [[ChildSoldiers three moon old kits being killed in battle]], etc. In one scene in the books [[spoiler:Scrouge injures Tigerstar so badly that he bleeds out from bloodless and he looses ''all nine'' of his lives at once from the graveness of the injuries]]. The manga depiction? Barely any blood at all.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' has censored reprints for being too violent, sexual, or too [[ValuesDissonance outdated]]. For example, one issue of ''Betty and Veronica'' had the girls say that perfume "turned them on". The reprints replace the line with them saying it "drives [me] crazy".

* When ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' ran a few chapters of ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' (which is itself a highly nonsensical decision), they gave it a nice heavy scrubbing. A couple of scenes were entirely removed, and all references to beer were changed to soda. Since this meant that Phoney Bone's OhCrap reaction when he realizes how royally he's screwed the pooch by threatening the musclebound bar owner over an economic misunderstanding had to be changed, too, they chose to give him some random-ass comment about being lactose intolerant, which doesn't make sense no matter how you butter it.
** What makes this silly is that Disney itself never used to be averse to depicting the consumption of beer (or similar beverages) in its cartoons.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' has censored reprints for being too violent, sexual, or too [[ValuesDissonance uncomfortable]]. For example, one issue of ''Betty and Veronica'' had the girls say that perfume "turned them on". The reprints replace the line with them saying it "drives them crazy".

* Here you find the original [[http://www.wilhelm-busch-seiten.de/werke/bilderbogen/alpha.html "Naturgeschichtliches Alphabet"]] of Wilhelm Busch, one of Germans very famous cartoonists. Look at item "Z" where you find your standard crooked-nosed Jew (Busch was your run-of-the-mill antisemite, to his only defense, he lived long before the [[AdolfHitler other guy]]) and an rhymed assertion that Jews like onions (and zebras you find somewhere, somewhere not). Oy gevalt! James Krüss (reknowned German children book author) in a reprint changed the "Juden/jews" into "nicht jedes/not anybody's", ruining the metrum on the fly. [[note]] Unfortunately research did not yield whether the drawing was in that book. If yes, the example would only get more egregious. [[/note]]

* Here you find the original [[http://www.wilhelm-busch-seiten.de/werke/bilderbogen/alpha.html "Naturgeschichtliches Alphabet"]] of Wilhelm Busch, one of Germans very famous cartoonists. Look at item "Z" where you find your standard crooked-nosed Jew (Busch was your run-of-the-mill antisemite, to his only defense, he lived long before the [[AdolfHitler other guy]]) and an rhymed assertion that Jews like onions (and zebras you find somewhere, somewhere not). Oy gevalt! James Krüss (reknowned German children book author) in a reprint changed the "Juden/jews" into "nicht jedes/not anybody's", ruining the metrum on the fly. [[note]] Unfortunately research did not yield whether the drawing was in that book. If yes, the example would only get more egregious. [[note]]

* ''{{Tintin}}'' was bowdlerized a lot.

** In "Tintin in America" Tintin hears a baby crying and thinks it's Snowy, his dog. In the original version the mother and her child were Afro-American. American publishers made Hergé change them into Caucasians.
** Similarly, in "The Crab With The Golden Claws", Captain Haddock is beaten by a Caucausian man, while in the original album this man was black, again fulfilling a request of the American publishers.
*** When Haddock discovers beer bottles in "The Crab With The Golden Claws", he starts drinking them. In the original version the reader sees him drinking each bottle. At the request of the publishers the drinking scenes themselves were removed. Now Haddock simply becomes drunk without the audience actually seeing him drink each bottle.
** "The Shooting Star" was probably the most bowdlerized album in the entire series. Hergé drew this story while he lived under the Nazi occupation. An anti-Semitic gag with two rabbis enjoying the predicted destruction of Earth, because then they wouldn't have to pay back their debts was removed. The villain in the story is an American banker who was originally called Blumenstein. After the war Hergé changed Blumenstein's country of origin into that of the fictional state Sao Rico and his name Blumenstein into "Bohlwinkel", because it sounded less Jewish. Unfortunately he later found out "Bohlwinkel" was also a very common Jewish name.
** The Belvision animated version of ''{{Tintin}}'' attempted to {{Bowdlerise}} Captain Haddock's drinking problem to sleeping drops in his coffee, and Alan's Opium running to diamond smuggling.
* Older albums of SuskeEnWiske have been bowdlerized as well, mostly to remove scenes, dialogues or jokes that refer too directly to post World War II news and society or Flemish culture in general.
* The lead character of the French comic book ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'' is Nävis, a teenage girl who, as the only survivor of a wrecked starship, has grown up alone except for an animal companion on a jungle planet. Volume 1 of the original comic depicts her naked except for a pair of briefs, with white bars tattooed on her arms, legs, face and breasts. The US edition is retitled ''Wake'', renames the character Navee for the sake of pronunciation, and censors her nudity by painting her chest tattoo solid black.

* Mocked in ''{{The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen}}'' vol. 2's supplementary material, where the last page contains a note from the "H.M. Office of Bowdlerisation" ordering readers to "detach and destroy all scenes of an unsavory nature".
* When DisneyAdventures ran a few chapters of {{Bone}} (which is itself a highly nonsensical decision), they gave it a nice heavy scrubbing. A couple scenes were entirely removed, and all references to beer were changed to soda. Since this meant that Phoney Bone's OhCrap reaction when he realizes how royally he's screwed the pooch by threatening the musclebound bar owner over an economic misunderstanding had to be changed too; so they chose to give him some random-ass comment about being lactose intolerant, which doesn't make sense no matter how you butter it.
** What makes this silly is that Disney themselves never used to be averse to depicting the consumption of beer (or similar beverages) in their cartoons.
* The MarvelComics reprints of ''ComicBook/FishPolice'' removed most of the profanity.
* A pair of issues of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' included with the Generations toys of Trailcutter and Hoist edit out references to guns, death and alcool, a single "damn" said from Sunstreaker and the in-universe explanation about why Trailbreaker changed his name to Trailcutter (the last one because Hasbro can't use the Trailbreaker name anymore).

* The MarvelComics reprints of ''ComicBook/FishPolice'' removed most of the profanity.

*** When Haddock discovers beer bottles in "The Crab With The Golden Clawes" he starts drinking them. In the original version the reader sees him drinking each bottle. At the request of the publishers the drinking scenes themselves were removed. Now Haddock simply becomes drunk without the audience actually seeing him drink each bottle.
** "The Shooting Star" was probably the most bowdlerized album in the entire series. Hergé drew this story while he lived under the nazi occupation. A antisemitic gag with two rabbis enjoying the predicted destruction of Earth, because then they wouldn't have to pay back their debts was removed. The villain in the story is an American banker who was originally called Blumenstein. After the war Hergé changed Blumenstein's country of origin into that of the fictional state Sao Rico and his name Blumenstein into "Bohlwinkel", because it sounded less Jewish. Unfortunately he later found out "Bohlwinkel" was also a very common Jewish name.

* The lead character of the French comic book ''{{Sillage}}'' is Navis, a teenage girl who as the only survivor of a wrecked starship has grown up alone except for an animal companion on a jungle planet. Volume 1 of the original comic depicts her naked except for a pair of briefs, with white bars tattooed on her arms, legs, face and breasts. The US edition is retitled ''Wake'', renames the character Navee for the sake of pronunciation, and censors her nudity by painting her chest tattoo solid black.
** Another French comic about a girl raised in the wild, ''Pyrénée'', might never see publication in English because the kid is starkers.

* The lead character of the French comic book ''Sillage'' is Navis, a teenage girl who as the only survivor of a wrecked starship has grown up alone except for an animal companion on a jungle planet. Volume 1 of the original comic depicts her naked except for a pair of briefs, with white bars tattooed on her arms, legs, face and breasts. The US edition is retitled ''Wake'', renames the character Navee for the sake of pronunciation, and censors her nudity by painting her chest tattoo solid black.

* ''{{Tintin}}'' was bowdlerized a lot.¨

* The Belvision version of ''{{Tintin}}'' attempted to {{Bowdlerise}} Captain Haddock's drinking problem to sleeping drops in his coffee, and Alan's Opium running to diamond smuggling.

* The Belvision version of ''{{Tintin}}'' attempted to {{Bowdlerise}} Captain Haddock's drinking problem to sleeping drops in his coffee, and Alan's Opium running to diamond smuggling. The grand irony is by and large diamonds a helluva lot bloodier...but of course nobody cares about 'those kinds of people' who died harvesting those.

* Mocked in ''{{The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen}}'' vol. 2's supplementary material, where the last page contains a note from the "H.M. Office of Bowdlerisation" ordering readers to "detach and destroy all scenes of an unsavoury nature".