@f8a6718e Yeah, this was clearly a similar situation to a lot of creatives where you can tell there was a frenzied meeting between a lot of people whose livelihoods depended on the Founder's work and they were not quite sure what to do next, and punted. 

You can see that in Clancy works, L. Ron Hubbard's SF stuff, and so on. They decided to go full steam ahead but Chick had the knack for truly uncomfortable, unsettling choices of topics and writing.