A Pedophile Joke in a Batman Comic

In a 1983 issue of The Brave and the Bold (#197), Commissioner Gordon is sent a package from the Scarecrow.

Quite clearly printed on the package is the word “pedophile.”

 Beyond that oddness, the story was so good (it filled in the story of how Earth-2 Batman married Earth-2 Selina Kyle), it ended up in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told!

I n that collection, DC edited out the word. But how did it get there in the first place?

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