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Wertham and censorship
* The End of Seduction-lengthy history of Wertham and censorship of comics

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( Wertham's claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as much ; however, Wertham also claimed that Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian.
" The committee's questioning of their next witness, EC publisher William Gaines, focused on violent scenes of the type Wertham had decried.
Wertham's claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as much ; however, Wertham also claimed Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian.
The committee's questioning of their next witness, EC publisher William Gaines, focused on violent scenes of the type Wertham had decried.
This is a reference to Seduction of the Innocent, an actual book written by Fredric Wertham which had great influence during the early 1950s and accused comic books of corrupting minors.

Wertham and against
Bart Beaty in his book Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture describes a concerted campaign by Dell against publication of Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent to the extent of recruiting several of the companies that it licensed characters from ( including Warner Brother Cartoons, the Lone Ranger Inc. and Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc .) to send letters of protest to Wertham's publisher Stanley Rinehart.
With the 1950s backlash against comics, led by the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, and propagated during the televised debates about comics leading to juvenile delinquency, as part of the Kefauver hearings, several publishing houses folded.
Despite Mainline's dissimilarity to the beleaguered EC and other companies then under constant attack, copies of Bullseye and Foxhole were reportedly used as exhibits by Wertham in the Senate hearings against comics, and seen by millions through the hearings ' nationwide television coverage.

Wertham and comic
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.
Given the subsequent emergence of organized fandom for comic books among adults who grew up reading them during Comics ' Golden Age, it is ironic Wertham at one point in Seduction ( pp. 89 – 90 ) asserts " I have known many adults who have treasured throughout their lives some of the books they read as children.
According to Wertham, news vendors were told by the distributors that if they did not sell the objectionable comic books, they would not be allowed to sell any of the other publications being distributed.
Beaty notes " Wertham repeated his call ... national legislation based on the public health ideal that would prohibit the circulation and display of comic books to children under the age of fifteen.
For every detractor who thinks he ’ s the worst thing to happen to comic books since Fredric Wertham, there are a dozen ravenous fanboys ready to snatch up whatever he does next.
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.
Wertham critiqued the commercial environment of comic book publishing and retailing, objecting to air rifles and knives advertised alongside violent stories.
The book also included a chapter that attacked contemporary comic books as harmful to children ; because his critique drew about his view that it was a consequence of the aforementioned cultural permissive views toward violence he wasn't a leading voice during the subsequent debate about the impact of comics that instead was dominated by Fredric Wertham.
The term is sometimes seen as an awkward, not least because of the cultural baggage tied-up both in comics ' origins in childish, humorous stories ( hence " comic "), and in the negative associations forced upon them in the 1950s by senate hearings and Fredric Wertham.

Wertham and on
Wertham was born on March 20, 1895 in Munich.
Seduction of the Innocent described overt or covert depictions of violence, sex, drug use, and other adult fare within " crime comics "— a term Wertham used to describe not only the popular gangster / murder-oriented titles of the time but also superhero and horror comics as well — and asserted, based largely on undocumented anecdotes, that reading this material encouraged similar behavior in children.
To promote this book Wertham made two memorable appearances on the Mike Douglas Show where he ended up debating his theories with the co-hosts, Barbara Feldon ( April 10, 1967 ) and Vincent Price ( June 19, 1967 ).
Beaty reveals in 1959 Wertham tried to sell a follow-up to Seduction on the effects of television on Children, to be titled The War on Children.
For example, Wertham expressed a concern for the impact of impossibly proportioned female characters on girl readers or on the advertisements of violent and harmful toys.
Primarily, Wertham assigned the blame to parents, not the industry nor the creators, in his book, and even his anxiety over Batman's and Robin's perceived homosexual subtexts was aimed at the welfare of a child introduced to that sort of family unit, not on some a priori immorality or sinfulness to such a lifestyle.
Baker's cover for Phantom Lady # 17 ( Apr, 1949 ) was reproduced in Seduction of the Innocent, the 1954 book by Dr. Fredric Wertham denouncing what he saw as the morally corrupting effect of comics on children.

Wertham and ;
Comics, especially the crime / horror titles pioneered by EC Comics, were not lacking in gruesome images ; Wertham reproduced these extensively, pointing out what he saw as recurring morbid themes such as " injury to the eye " ( as depicted in Plastic Man creator Jack Cole's " Murder, Morphine and Me ", which he illustrated and probably wrote for publisher Magazine Village's True Crime Comics Vol.
Comics, especially the crime / horror titles pioneered by EC, were not lacking in gruesome images ; Wertham reproduced these extensively, pointing out what he saw as recurring morbid themes such as " injury to the eye ".

Wertham and book
In extensive testimony before the committee, Wertham restated arguments from his book and pointed to comics as a major cause of juvenile crime.
The shorts were intended to satirize suggestions that early Batman comics implied a homosexual relationship between the eponymous title character and his sidekick Robin, a charge most infamously leveled by Fredric Wertham in his 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent.
It is worth noting that, prior to its publication, Wertham was not an anti-comic crusader, nor did he likely mean for the book to generate the public reaction it did.
In extensive testimony before the committee, Wertham restated arguments from his book and pointed to comics as a major cause of juvenile crime.
In 1954, Fredric Wertham published Seduction of the Innocent, a book in which he asserted that comics were inciting children to violence.
" It was also one of many examples used by Fredric Wertham in his book Seduction of the Innocent.

Wertham and World
* Wertham, Fredric, The World of Fanzines, ( Carbondale & Evanston: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973 )

Wertham and ),
First US printing of Seduction of the Innocent ( 1954 ), by Dr. Fredric Wertham.

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Wertham objected to not only the violence in the stories but also the fact that air rifles and knives were advertised alongside them.
Wertham sympathized with retailers who did not want to sell horror comics, yet were compelled to by their distributors ' table d ' hôte product line policies.

Wertham and ".
" The Strange Case of Dr. Wertham " Amazing Heroes # 123 ( August 15, 1987 ); " The Return of Dr. Wertham " Amazing Heroes # 124 ( Sept. 1, 1987 ); " From Dr. Wertham With Love " Amazing Heroes # 125 ( Sept. 15, 1987 ) part series, see below for link to condensed version posted online under title " Fredric Wertham-Anti-Comics Crusader Who Turned Advocate ".
The story was singled out by Robert Warshow in his 1954 essay " Paul, the Horror Comics, and Dr. Wertham ".

always and denied
They were always denied.
He always denied having conscious knowledge of Welsh, but " his lines chime with internal consonantal correspondence, or cynghanedd, a prescribed feature of Welsh versification ".
Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.
Since " Barbellion " was the real author's pen name, many reviewers believed Wells to have been the true author of the Journal ; Wells always denied this, despite being full of praise for the diaries, but the rumours persisted until Barbellion's death later that year.
He was incessantly tortured by the fear of being regarded as a ‘ bourgeois intellectual ’… It always seemed as if he were offering blind devotion ( to Nazism ) to make up for his lack of all those characteristics of the racial elite which nature had denied him.
Patterson's friend and business associate, Gimlin, has always denied being involved in any part of a possible hoax with Patterson and claims that he and his partner had encountered a real Bigfoot.
While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character – particularly since the name " Laura " has a linguistic connection to the poetic " laurels " Petrarch coveted – Petrarch himself always denied it.
Walpole always denied that he was " prime minister ", and throughout the 18th century parliamentarians and legal scholars continued to deny that any such position was known to the Constitution.
Miles described Milligan as :" a man of quite extraordinary talents ... a visionary who is out there alone, denied the usual contacts simply because he is so different he can't always communicate with his own species ...".
This testimony was extremely dubious: witnesses Richard Southwell and Mr. Palmer both denied having heard the details of the reported conversation, and as More himself pointed out :< Blockquote > " Can it therefore seem likely to your Lordships, that I should in so weighty an Affair as this, act so unadvisedly, as to trust Mr. Rich, a Man I had always so mean an Opinion of, in reference to his Truth and Honesty, ... that I should only impart to Mr. Rich the Secrets of my Conscience in respect to the King's Supremacy, the particular Secrets, and only Point about which I have been so long pressed to explain my self?
He denied that we can ever perceive cause and effect, except by developing a habit or custom of mind where we come to associate two types of object or event, always contiguous and occurring one after the other.
For the puritanical Raeder, the divorce was a huge personal disgrace, and as a result for the rest of his life, he always denied his first marriage.
He always flatly denied them.
Delon always denied his paternity.
Some Catholic coeliac sufferers have requested permission to use rice wafers ; such petitions have always been denied.
The members of the organization always denied any ties between their organization and Fatah or the PLO.
Segal himself always denied the latter and kept pursuing the hypothesis even after the operation had been canceled and the cold war had ended.
Bouterse always denied being guilty and defended his conviction by claiming that the star witness in the case, Patrick van Loon, was bribed by the Dutch government.
Bouterse always denied being guilty and reacted to the verdict by stating that the star witness in his case, Patrick van Loon, was bribed by the Dutch government.
Redglare, who died in 2001, always denied any part in her death.
Klaatu themselves did not start these rumours and always flatly denied them, and indeed no Beatle was ever involved in the writing, recording or production of any Klaatu material.
'" Downey flatly denied being " depressed or manic " and that previous attempts to diagnose him with any kind of psychiatric or mood disorder have always been skewed because " the guy I was seeing didn't know I was smokin ' crack in his bathroom.
Some people suggested that the Krofft brothers were influenced by marijuana and LSD, although they have always denied these claims.
Pleasant District Association ; he was financially supported by his father, who always said,the bottom rail will come to the top, one day and justice will not always be denied to the colored man .” His gentle father taught him, “ If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it !” At Linden Academy, David led his first demonstration to protest the inferior Science Lab.

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