“The Mask of Matches Malone!” – Batman: The Brave and the Bold

I covered this one extensively last year, so I won’t harp on it here. Still, this highly enjoyable episode got banned everywhere except Australia due to a raunchy musical number in which Catwoman, Black Canary, and Huntress insulted the male heroes’ skills in bed — uh, I mean, crime-fighting. Skills in crime-fighting. Yup.

Like “Apokolips…Now!” it has since been made available in its full glory on HBO Max.

“Insane in the Membrane” – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 series)

Scientist Baxter Stockman had an extremely rough go of it in this series, body-wise. He eventually required a cloned body, which he succeeded in making for himself. Sort of. Before long, the clone’s body started literally falling apart. That’s where the trouble with the network started, too.

The scenes of Stockman’s body falling apart were deemed so graphic that the episode never aired on television. But you can now watch the whole thing on Paramount+, if you’ve got the stomach for it.

“The Gatekeeper” – Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

In this episode, our middle school-aged hero confronts a very different sort of villain: a bigoted volleyball coach who doesn’t think Moon Girl’s transgender teammate should be allowed to play.

Do I even have to explain why the folks in charge of Disney at the time refused to release this episode on Disney+? When called out for their behavior, Disney insisted they weren’t being transphobic: they were just trying to be considerate of transphobic parents who might not want their kids learning that it’s okay to be trans from this episode — which, incidentally, Disney said is not banned, just “held.”

Despite that claim, this is the only episode on the list that you still can’t watch, at least not legally.

Comics have a long legacy of being targeted by censors, and today they are among the most censored titles in America. Here’s a look at what last year looked like in comics censorship.