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I was wrong about the era, apparently the height of the comic book scare was the late 1950s, but it continued to the end of the century as far as I remember. I
by kouru225 3y ago
I was wrong about the era, apparently the height of the comic book scare was the late 1950s, but it continued to the end of the century as far as I remember.
It's all based on this book Seduction of the Innocent: https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/dp/159683000X https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/d...
Here's an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic-books.html https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic...
The scare went all the way to Congress.
Here's a book about the history of the comic book scare: https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235 https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-Am...