Sunday, May 21, 2017
Seduction of the Innocent!
The Psychiatrist Who Almost Brought Down the Comic Book Industry: Superheroes are used to dealing with mad scientists, lumbering monsters, and would-be dictators on the page, but in the real world of the mid-1950s, their biggest threat came from the words of Dr. Fredric Wertham, a psychiatrist who led a public crusade that almost destroyed the comic book industry.
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Hiss!!!
In Indianapolis in the late 1950s and early 1960s, there would be occasional bots of hysteria about comic books. And then the hysteria would fade away for a couple of years. I remember being told in Sunday School (before I dropped out) that Wonder Woman was a bad influence on little girls. Figured out later what that meant...
Some people can only function if they create hate objects and scapegoats.
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