Seduction of the Innocent, Part 2

Originally published September 9, 1994, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1086 We were discussing Seduction of the Innocent, the 1954 book by Dr. Fredric Wertham which became the symbol of the notion that comic books were destroying America's youth. The Kefauver Crime Commission hearings, which found no causal connection between comics and juvenile delinquency, were treated [...]