Dr. Fredric Wertham’s Bad Book. The overarching argument of the book is that comics aren’t just a catalyst for delinquency, but a root cause.

Part II should avoid popular villains such as The Joker and use Batman's earliest goes to set the stage for the ReevesVerse's ...

For comic-book fans, Fredric Wertham is the biggest villain of all time, a real-life bad guy worse than the Joker, Lex Luthor, and Magneto combined. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Wertham was ...

Wertham also didn't reveal that he never personally met or observed Dorothy; she was the patient of his associate, Dr. Hilde Mosse… And Wertham knew full well that lots of articulate kids valued ...

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 ...

Dr. Fredric Wertham, whose 1954 anti-comics epic, Seduction of the Innocent, deserves a great deal of credit for the congressional hearings and bonfires that consumed so many comic books in the 1950s.

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 ...

Perhaps Wertham’s most shocking claims were about comic book stores — “obscure” places “where children congregate, often in backrooms, to read and buy secondhand comic books” — which ...

Harroff and his wife, Charlotte Johnson, explore the comics scare of 1948 to 1952 and the impact of Wertham’s 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent in their exhibit Who Knows What Evil Lurks in ...

A SIGN FOR CAIN by Fredric Wertham, M.D. 391 pages. Macmmillian $6.95. "There is not one scientific or scientifically oriented book in any language on the general subject of physical violence ...