In 1971, the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare approached Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee to do a comic book story about drug abuse. Lee agreed and wrote a three-part Spider-Man story portraying drug use as dangerous and unglamorous. However, the industry's self-censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, refused to approve the story because of the presence of narcotics, deeming the context of the story irrelevant. Lee, with Goodman's approval, published the story regardless in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May–July 1971), without the Comics Code seal. The market reacted well to the storyline, and the CCA subsequently revised the Code the same year. COUNT 5
QSN1 What government agency asked Marvel to do a series of stories to publicize an issue? ANS1 United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare QSN2 What issue was Marvel asked to tackle for this agency? ANS2 drug abuse QSN3 What comic book series did stories related to this issue appear in? ANS3 Spider-Man QSN4 What industry censorship and standards organization tried to block publication of this series? ANS4 Comics Code Authority QSN5 What were the issue dates of the three-episode series on this public health issue? ANS5 May–July 1971