Comic books were only infantilized for a brief period. Have you ever read the original Dick Tracy, which was perfectly fine entertainment children in the '30s?

Comic books were only infantilized for a brief period. Have you ever read the original Dick Tracy, which was perfectly fine entertainment children in the '30s? It's hardcore. There are scenes with Tracy torturing gang members with fire. Pulp, western, romance, and horror genres dominated. All would be deemed in appropriate by this author. Children read them anyway. Then came the Comics Code Authority, which it seems this author would like to see return. It started in the '50s and didn't officially end until much more recently. But even under the CCA in the '70s and '80s you were seeing plenty of material "inappropriate" for children. In the US kids could be found reading Claremont's X-Men, a run of comics absolutely boiling over with everything that makes conservatives angry. In Japan, where the CCA did not exist, you could find children reading things like Fist of the North Star. Those children Are now in their 40s and 50s. Purely anecdotal, but I've never heard of even one person who was traumatized or devastated because they read such a comic book at a young age. I have heard many stories of people who's lives were dramatically positively influenced by those books such that they still remember and revere them to this day. Let your kid read (almost) whatever comic book they want. It's not hard to avoid what truly XXX-rated material that's out there.