History Bowdlerise / ComicBooks

* Another French comic about a girl raised in the wild, ''ComicBook/{{Pyrenee}}'', might never see publication in English because the kid is starkers.

* 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 used by Evelyn Cream in his [[NWordPrivileges internal monologue]] to refer to himself 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 digital release edited one panel of Liz being naked so she had panties on, with the 2022 omnibus collection of the series using Marvel's reprint series instead of the original prints from ''Warrior'' and Eclipse Comics, therefore once again leaving the sexual content and violence untouched while censoring both uses of the N-word.

* 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 used by Evelyn Cream in his [[NWordPrivileges internal monologue]] to refer to himself 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 digital release edited one panel of Liz being naked so she had panties on, with the 2022 omnibus collection of the series once again leaving the sexual content and violence untouched while censoring both uses of the N-word.

* 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 used by Evelyn Cream in his [[NWordPrivileges internal monologue]] to refer to himself 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.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The short story "Ascension" featured in Issue #11 -- in which princess Sally Acorn [[InstantOracleJustAddWater immerses herself in the Source of All to receive its guidance]] -- was subjected to mild Bowdlerization when it appeared in the ''Sonic Select Book'' series and ''Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia''. In the original print, Sally spends most of the story [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/f/fe/Source_of_All.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20121201000751 completely clothesless]], and while she is already an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal to begin with (wearing nothing but a pair of boots and an open vest), this particular instance marked the only time where her lack of clothes is [[AppropriateAnimalAttire presented as if she were genuinely nude]]. The reprints later edited each panel to show Sally still wearing her vest while being barefoot, most likely to lessen the awkward implication of a female character ''skinny dipping on-panel''.

* Patsy Walker was known as Hellcat by the time ''ComicBook/SpideySuperStories'' featured her, so the comic used her older, more kid-friendly alias of The Cat instead.

* The packaging copy for early {{ComicBook/Spawn}} action figures as well as the SNES Spawn video game and its manual referred to {{Main/Hell}} as "the Darklands".

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The first short story featured in Issue #11 of the ''Super Sonic Special'' series -- in which princess Sally Acorn decides to receive guidance from the royal family's liquid SentientCosmicForce by [[InstantOracleJustAddWater immersing herself in a well of it]] -- was subjected to mild Bowdlerization when it was featured in the ''Sonic Select Book'' series and ''Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia''. In the original print, Sally spends most of the short story [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/f/fe/Source_of_All.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20121201000751 completely clothesless]], and while Sally is already an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal to begin with (wearing nothing but a pair of boots and an open vest), this marked the only time where her lack of clothes is [[AppropriateAnimalAttire presented as if she were genuinely nude]]. The reprints later edited each panel to show Sally still wearing her vest while being barefoot, most likely to lessen the awkward implication of a female character -- in a kid-friendly comic book, no less -- ''skinny dipping on-panel''.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The first short story featured in Issue #11 of the ''Super Sonic Special'' series -- in which princess Sally Acorn decides to receive guidance from the royal family's liquid SentientCosmicForce by [[InstantOracleJustAddWater immersing herself in a well of it]] -- was subjected to mild Bowdlerization when it was featured in the ''Sonic Select Book'' series and ''Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia''. In the original print, Sally spends most of the short story [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/f/fe/Source_of_All.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20121201000751 completely nude]], and while Sally is already an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal to begin with (wearing nothing but a pair of boots and an open vest), this marked the only time her lack of clothes is [[AppropriateAnimalAttire treated as genuine nudity in-universe]]. The reprints later edited each panel to show Sally still wearing her vest, presumably because it would have seemed more awkward to readers otherwise.

* The ''ComicBook/{{Animorphs}}'' graphic novels keep most of the books' FamilyUnfriendlyViolence intact, but ''The Invasion'' omits the [[HorrorHunger Taxxons]] eating Elfangor's remains.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The first short story featured in Issue #11 of the ''Super Sonic Special'' series -- in which princess Sally Acorn decides to receive guidance from the royal family's liquid SentientCosmicForce by [[InstantOracleJustAddWater immersing herself in a well of it]] -- was subjected to mild Bowdlerization when it was featured in the ''Sonic Select Book'' series and ''Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia''. In the original print, Sally spends most of the short story [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/f/fe/Source_of_All.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20121201000751 completely nude]], and while Sally is already an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal to begin with (wearing nothing but a pair of boots and an open vest), this marked the only time her lack of clothes is [[AppropiateAnimalAttire treated as genuine nudity in-universe]]. The reprints later edited each panel to show Sally still wearing her vest, presumably because it would have seemed more awkward to readers otherwise.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The first short story included in Issue #11 of the ''Super Sonic Special'' series -- in which princess Sally Acorn decides to receive guidance from the royal family's liquid SentientCosmicForce by [[InstantOracleJustAddWater immersing herself in a well of it]] -- was subjected to mild Bowdlerization when it was featured in the ''Sonic Select Book'' series and ''Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia''. In the original print, said story began right off the bat with Sally [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/f/fe/Source_of_All.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20121201000751 having just disrobed herself on-panel]] in preparation for entering the well, who appears this way for most of its duration. Despite the fact that Sally was already an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal to begin with (and her default outfit, a pair of boots and an open vest, didn't leave her any less exposed save for her feet), each illustration depicting her in the reprints was edited to have her [[AdaptationalModesty wear something for the entirety of the story]], even if it's only her signature vest. This wasn't because of the nudity itself, but rather because Sally's unclothed state was treated by the story as '''genuine''' female nudity for {{fanservice}}, as opposed to the artistically-licensed kind exhibited by other similarly-dressed {{Funny Animal}}s.