YMMV / Swamp Thing Volume 2 - Issue 29: "Love and Death"

• Genre Turning Point: DC's decision to publish "Love and Death" without the Comics Code Authority Seal of Approval, and to do so for all of the title's subsequent issues,^note except for the following issue, #30, perhaps because it'd already been approved was unprecedented in mainstream American comic book history.^note In 1971, Stan Lee published his government-commissioned anti-drug Spider-Man story, in The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #96-98, without the CCA seal when the organization rejected it. However, with the conclusion of that arc, Marvel resumed submitting the title to the CCA. It paved the way for additional DC titles aimed at an adult readership and dealing with more sophisticated themes than the Code allowed, leading eventually to the DC Vertigo imprint (to which Swamp Thing would be transferred), and inspiring other publishers to create titles or entire imprints for mature readers.