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Indeed, governmental response to Wertham’s crusade was already under way. Several cities, from Los Angeles to St. Cloud, Minnesota, passed ordinances banning crime and horror comics in the late 1940s, and New York established a state commission to investigate them.
Whitney Strub • Perversion for Profit
Despite such contestation, the attack on comics continued in the early 1950s. State and local legislation proliferated, coinciding with the delivery of Wertham’s 1954 magnum opus, Seduction of the Innocent.
Whitney Strub • Perversion for Profit
New York’s Joint Legislative Committee on Comic Books suddenly reinvented itself as the Joint Legislative Committee on Obscene Material, while the Catholic magazine America abruptly shifted gears from comics to pornography. In March 1955, after a lengthy series of anticomics articles, it declared a “comic-books cease-fire” to allow the industry to
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to Arch Oboler, the creator of Lights Out, a scary program that aired in the ’30s.
David Sedaris • Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
