Originally Posted by
Gotham citizen
In an interview Dick Giordano said that on the long term the C.C.A. killed the romantic comics, because the readers grew up and started to ask for more mature content, but the authors couldn't give them those contents because they were against the C.C.A. rules, so in the end "the readers became overgrown for the comics they read" and the genre died. I think the same thing happened to all not superhero comics, the readers asked for content that the C.C.A. didn't allow and so they stop to read the comics.