 People criticised the graphic violence depicted in Oriental Heroes and other similar action genre manhua, eventually leading to the enactment of the Indecent Publication Law in 1975, banning explicit violence in manhua.As the Indecent Publication Law only applied to manhua, Wong Yuk-long established a daily newspaper, called "Sàng Bou" (), with which to publish Oriental Heroes.In the first month of Sàng Bou's run, the newspaper published actual news together with various manhua titles, including Oriental Heroes on the back cover.