comic book censorship

clip from history channel piece on comic book history.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• comic
• books
• wertham
• stan
• lee

[EdGauthier1]

All criminals also eat bread and drink milk - which must therefore mean that bread and milk creates criminals, too, huh?

[teamgh0ul]

man if they thought comics were evil back then, they would all probably have a heart attack if they saw todays media

[jmen4ever]

Old doc W. latched onto a good thing. Comics were the low man on the totom pole, to established newspaper strip writers and artists, such as Burne hogarth.Doc W., achived some real prominance, Im sure he milked to his dying day.He was an oportunist.At the least, his actions took out 45% the old comics out there, paper drives the other 45%.

[AsylumPress]

this is such great history. The 50s were a scary time.

[cha5]

One sweet bit of irony is that the CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund) just yesterday bought the intellectual property rights to the comics code seal of approval during Banned Books Week, a nice little final nail in the coffin for the comics code authority and it's era. :-)

[MikeAM78]

This is a good clip, except for the moron who suggests the McCarthy hearings were ridiculous. The Wertham stuff, THAT was ridiculous.

[powermasterjazz]

This Nazi crap still happens today. There's always something that's "ruining our children" that really isn't. Guys like Wertham are the real ruinators.

[cha5]

@cha5 The book 'The Ten Cent Plague' really covers Wertham and the impact he had on comics better than just about anything else IMHO.

[cha5]

@MrColuber Well Wertham also as I recall was fond of making claims like that the influence of comics and television had more of an impact on children than dysfunctional familys and poverty that children were born into, and he especially used his children's clinic up in Harlem as examples in his theories of mental hygene, which most child psychiatrists these days would dismiss as bunk. Wertham may have had good intentions, but he earned his title of the Joe McCarthy of comics with gusto.

[MrColuber]

@mjghunter667 You shouldn't be too harsh on Wertham. Though he did do comics a great disservice, he was one of the few to fight for desegregation in schools amongst many other causes many admire today.

[Asthegrave]

@telewatcher89 i agree wit u on some points. They had the guts 2 kill Bruce Wayne only 2 bring him bak again in the most ridiculous fashion.

[Asthegrave]

@TheCalamator god knows u wont spend it on real books u illiterate fuck. xxx mags, its a shame trash like u live on 2 hav stupid fucking illiterate children like u. The Calamtor hates comics! All is lost! what will we do without his sage counsel to guide us in these uncertain times! Prick. Eat a bag of dicks.