The Horrors Of It All, a blog devoted to pre-Comics Code Authority horror comics, posts a condensed excerpt of Frederic Wertham’s infamous expose, Seduction of the Innocent, that appeared in the May 1954 issue of Reader’s Digest.
(Link via Dirk Deppey)
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December 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Apparently the image of a delinquent child was much more proper in the ’50s. That kid looks about as menacing as a med student.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
If you turn the pages with a knife you don’t get dirt on them- it’s just common sense.
And the sweater vest? Holy thug4life, Fiddy!
December 11th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Whatever happened to the guy who in the early 1990s wrote a book which was a modern day version of what Wertham did and claimed that comics were worse than ever? Is his screed anywhere on line? He seemed to particularly dislike Image Comics.