Tomb Edits Have Second-Day Legs

The decision by Marvel to cover up some above the belt nudity in a forthcoming Essential Tomb of Dracula Volume 4, which draws on material that was sold to (ostensibly) adult readers through the newsstand magazine Tomb of Dracula, stirred up enough interest to engender commentary here, here and here, with a more complete news story popping up here.

This story gets some heat from the fact that recent content edits in manga have really worked up fans, partly because of a desire for authenticity I think is unique to that form of comics expression. Without a similar groundswell of outrage, what you're left with here is a platform to look at the general treatment of nudity in media or a shot at a now/then discussion of nudity in comics.

Me, I can't help but thinking the Essentials books, by dropping color and being printed on cheap paper, are obviously an effort more akin to re-packaging old movies for broadcast TV rather than a series of deluxe DVDs that can be expected to pay due consideration to the old work, so this barely registers as a unique crime against a background of general exploitation and editorial control historically embodied by these kinds of companies. I'm uneasy enough expressing that to think I could be wrong, though.
 
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