'Let Us Commit Them to the Flames': The Comic Book Burnings of the 1940s
Comics were thought to cause juvenile delinquency. So people took the reasonable step of setting them on fire.
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Comics were thought to cause juvenile delinquency. So people took the reasonable step of setting them on fire.
Simple diagrams in Exposed #6 and #7 were used in Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent as examples of how-to crime instruction.
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