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Comics Critic Fredric Wertham Lied in Order to Implicate Comic Books in Juvenile Delinquency Brian Doherty | 2.12.2013 1:33 PM Share on Facebook Share on X Share on Reddit Share by email Print ...

Robert A. Emmons Jr., documentary filmmaker, Rutgers professor and lifelong comic book reader, has tackled in his new documentary Diagram for Delinquents the most hated man in comic book history ...

Any comic book nerd will tell you that Dr. Frederic Wertham's book The Seduction of the Innocent pushed the American comic book industry into its dark ages in the 1950s. Wertham's research ...

Expect more scholars to examine the papers soon. “After more than 50 years we are still obliged to reference Seduction in much of our comics scholarship, and so the opening of Wertham’s papers ...

"Fredric Wertham?" Yes, him—the psychiatrist whose 222 boxes of papers the Library of Congress has opened to the public. In comics lore, Dr. Wertham has become something of a cryptic figure himself.

at Powell's today, the 1950 Scribners' hard cover that sold for $2.75. And I bought it largely for the introduction by , whose 1954 anti-comics epic, Seduction of the Innocent , deserves a great ...

Rutgers University-Camden researcher and filmmaker Robert Emmons' new documentary, "Diagram for Delinquents," aims to relay the complex and untold story of Fredric Wertham.

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Welcome back to a post-revolutionary edition of The Issue. At issue today is Le Grelot No. 208 from April 4, 1875, with cover art by Alfred Le Petit.