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Marvel was STILL working under the Comics Code for their non direct market stuff and on paper the CCA still defined homosexuality as a sexual perversion. That would have meant a book being rejected, possibly missing a printing deadline which cost thousands in penalties. If it had gone to print? It would have been pulped, redrawn/re-written and sent to print again and at that point the business guys upstairs would have called Shooter on the carpet and asked "Why did we just lose a couple of thousand dollars making an unsellable comic book about homos?"
America in the 70's to late 80's was becoming tolerant of homosexuality in certain genres of entertainment but they weren't going to accept it in what they still thought was children's entertainment in Regan's America.
Shooter was right, and any other Editor In Chief who wanted to keep his job would have had the same policy at that time. No it ain't 'right' but neither is presentism.
