This is spectacular, from Tom Brevoort’s Marvel Age of Comics tumblr: A 1968 TV Guide story about the rise of “weirdo superheroes” in cartoons at the time, including concern over the amount of violence, the lack of comedy and the potentially dangerous effects such characters can have on the children. Compare and contrast with the kind of mainstream media coverage something like Avengers vs. X-Men or the New 52 gets these days, and feel either happy at the way in which comic book culture has wormed its way into the mainstream pop culture in the last 40 years or depressed at the fact that no-one uses the phrase “weirdo superheroes” anymore.

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