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Seduction of the Innocent is a book by German-American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency.

The book was a minor bestseller that created alarm in parents and galvanized them to campaign for censorship.

At the same time, a U. S. Congressional inquiry was launched into the comic book industry.

Subsequent to the publication of Seduction of the Innocent, the Comics Code Authority was voluntarily established by publishers to self-censor their titles.