In this episode, we start by discussing the Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Juvenille Delinquency from 1954. These hearings that took place over two days in 1954 explored crime, violence, sex and horror in comic books. As a result of these hearings and the efforts of those like Fredric Wertham whose book Seduction of the Innocent [...]
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