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  • CHS: Comics: Heroes, Heartthrobs & Horrors
    ...criticism against comic books. Murphy spoke out against the violence within the comic books popular at the time: “many of the comic books...
  • Gamers With Jobs ::
    ...here, I know.  I don’t necessarily have anything against comic books … well actually, maybe I have a little something against them.  The...
  • 1954 Senate Interim Report - Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency
    Comic Books and Juvenile Deliquency ... He will often advance up to 25 percent against the final accounting, which will take place (3 or 4 months...
  • Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Free Mickey!
    The prejudice against comic books, argues Brownstein, dates back to the Kefauver Senate Subcommittee Hearings of 1954, which blamed horror...
  • Hollywood: Comic book heroes count more than the U.S. military
    I have nothing against comic books. I'm a major comic book fan from way back.
  • Campaign against video games is political grandstanding
    ...of this seems familiar, it's because the same arguments now leveled against video games were leveled against comic books in the 1950s. The U.S...
  • Archives de Colby Cosh
    ...appear to be contending against a hint of uninformed prejudice against comic books as a literary form.
  • BookPage Interview October 2000: Michael Chabon
    ...brother, and grandfather . . . his city, his history -- his home -- the usual charge leveled against comic books, that they offered merely an...
  • Reason magazine -- March 2001, Intolerant Alliance by Jesse Walker
    It might come as a surprise, then, that the ’50s crusade against comic books was led by a leftist psychologist, that Hollywood’s old...
  • Moral Panics Over Youth Culture and Video Games
    2.0 Historical Moral Panics 21 ... 2.1 Comic Books 22 ... 2.2 Rock 'n Roll 37 ... 2.3 Dungeons and Dragons 45 ... and polarized the deviants...
  • TheComicBooks.com - History of Comic Books ... in the "effects" that comic books had on children. In 1948, Dr. Wertham came out against comic books publicly in an interview in Collier's Magazine titled "Horror in the Nursery." This ... www.collectortimes.com/~comichistory/Hist2.html
  • 1954 Senate Interim Report - Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency ... behavior. A summerization of Professor Threasher's contention is that in 1949, the case against comic books had not been proved pro or con. His presentation points out the need for more study and ... www.collectortimes.com/~comichistory/kefauver.html Show more results from "www.collectortimes.com".
  • Comic Book Fandom ... 1950's comics became a scapegoat for the rise in juvenile deliquency. This crusade against comic books was lead by Dr. Fredric Wertham and his alarmist propaganda. He suggested ideas such as, comic ... astro.temple.edu/~awalton/comic.html
  • Seal of Approval ... level to ban or license comic book sales. A major figure in the crusade against comic books was the psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham. While he played a significant role in the ... www.upress.state.ms.us/books/s/seal_of_approval.html 8/7/2005
  • Seducers of the Innocent ... continued to produce even more controversial material. By 1950 the uproar against comic books in general had become an epidemic, not only in America but in other countries as well ... www.crimeboss.com/history02-3.html 8/7/2005
  • New York City Comic Book Museum ... Edmonton Mall location. "That newfound popularity has helped kill the heavy social stigma against comic books, such as it's a nerdy thing to do, and finally people are taking comics seriously as an art ... www.nyccomicbookmuseum.org/concierge/Comicculture.htm
  • A Brief History of First Amendment Issues in Comic Books ... in the United States. The evil doctor and his devilish tome served to turn society against comic books and he nearly succeeded in destroying the industry. He wanted comics banned, ... www.nyccomicbookmuseum.org/exhibits/pdf/ComicsCode_paper.PDF PDF fileShow more results from "www.nyccomicbookmuseum.org".
  • Seduction of the Innocent ... generation of youth is ruined. A fascinating and readable diatribe against comic books, deliberately cast as an attempt to bring a preventative "public health approach ... www.mutoworld.com/SeductionoftheInnocent.htm 8/7/2005
  • PULP CULTURE for MAR. 24, 2005: Campaign against video games is ... ... familiar, it's because the same arguments now leveled against video games were leveled against comic books in the 1950s. The U.S. Senate held hearings, during which psychologist Fredric Wertham ... home.hiwaay.net/~tfharris/pulpculture/columns/050324.shtml