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Fredric Wertham ( March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981 ) was a German-born American psychiatrist and crusading author who protested the purportedly harmful effects of violent imagery in mass media and comic books on the development of children.

His best-known book was Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), which purported that comic books are dangerous to children.

Wertham's criticisms of comic books helped spark a U. S. Congressional inquiry into the comic book industry and the creation of the Comics Code.

He called television " a school for violence ," and said " If I should meet an unruly youngster in a dark alley, I prefer it to be one who has not seen Bonnie and Clyde.