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True, as long as you don't think too much about what's likely to happen to the guy being ejected from the car Captain Marvel threw!   Yikes!

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Ah, but that's where the intended audience comes into play again! Kids don't often consider that thru-line of action-to-consequence. Comic book images, like those covers, tend(ed) to be snapshots of the action, and there was rarely any display of what happened in the "next frame".

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This is where, I think, the problem comes in when we talk about the
inappropriateness of current comics. Kids don't, but adults do. As
adults continuing there own fandom, they seem to have a need to
show every instance of this. Once you start down that road, it ceases
being a case of action-to-consequence and becomes violence-to-
consequence.

While this has happened in the past to add weight to a Really big
story, now it's become too common place. It's the biggest reason,
IMO, comics aren't fun to read anymore.

A decade later I did a similar scene in AVENGERS WEST COAST, in which the Scarlet Witch, under the influence of Magneto, does "something" to Wonder Man, and this almost instantly became known as "the blowjob scene", and rumors abounded that it was the reason I was "fired" off WCA.

That's a pretty clear encapsulation, I think, of what happens when the audience sticks around too long, and starts applying adult perceptions to what they're reading.