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Panic in the pages: Did comic books -- and the firestorm they touched off in the 1950s -- do more than rock 'n' roll ... ?
Posted by Ed Thompson on 3/23, 8:28pm
... lawmakers were passing bills to restrict or eradicate the distribution of comic books, and community groups organized mass burnings. The reviews of Wertham's book were largely uncritical and admiring, despite his bizarre fixation on superheroes and their purported connection to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and, by extension, Nazism.
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