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	Review of Seduction of the Innocent
		Wertham's name is well-known to most fans with a sense of history; he was one of the most vocal anti-comics forces in the 1950s.
		Wertham also notes that similar shootings continues to occur after the boy had been apprehended, implying that the boy was not the true culprit.
		Wertham's concerns about the depictions of latent homosexuality in comic books are far more political than scientific; needless to say, Wertham's descriptions of the relations between Batman and Robin are closer to a Lenny Bruce routine than to an accurate portrayal of the comic as it existed in the 1950s.
	www.geocities.com /d-patanella/wertham.html (2304 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Artist Biographies - Frederic Wertham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Released in 1954, "Seduction of the Innocent" was Wertham's epic tome on the effects of comics on children.
		Wertham wrote another book in 1958 called "Circle of Guilt" whose main claim was that Americans were starting to feel that they were less responsible for themselves and their actions, resulting in higher crime rates across the country.
		Hecklers were throughout the audience and with the animous reaching a fever pitch, Wertham left the panel and the convention.
	www.comic-art.com /bios-1/wertham1.htm (1295 words)

	comiccode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wertham was convinced that comic books were evil, that they contributed to the delinquency of minors.
		Of course, Wertham was a key speaker at the Subcommittee Investigation, and in his summary stated that "Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic book industry".
		Wertham of course labelled self- regulation a sham; many of the fans of the day felt that regulation had killed their comic books.
	www.camino.k12.ca.us /student/comic/code/comiccode.htm (1085 words)

	Wertham, Fredric: Seduction of the Innocent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After seven years of research on children and adolescents diagnosed as "juvenile delinquents," psychiatrist Wertham concluded that crime comic books (mysteries, thrillers, horror, and police stories) are a harmful influence on young minds.
		Wertham's critique attracted the attention of Time and Harper's magazines and he appeared to enjoy the industry's efforts to refute his vocal criticisms by demonizing him as a deranged doctor in the very products that he deplored.
		Wertham is clearly troubled by the stark portrayal of violence and of prominent breasts and bulging genitalia and is at pains to indicate how disgusting and "tedious" he finds the study of comics: "you have to wade through all the mushiness, the false sentiment, the social hypocrisy, the titillation, the cheapness" (p.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/wertham1526-des-.html (441 words)

	EC Comics
		After the comic book industry imploded during the 1950s in the wake of the hysteria caused by Dr. Frederick Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent (and, just as important, a shakeup in the distribution companies who sold comic books and pulp magazines in America), most of EC Comics' titles were cancelled.
		Fredric Wertham (March 20, 1895-November 29, 1981) was a German-American psychiatrist and crusading author who protested the purportedly harmful effects of mass media-comic books in particular-on the development of children.
		Wertham's writing, in books and magazine articles, turned exclusively to the unwholesome effects of the media, and comic books in particular.
	www.jahsonic.com /ECComics.html (1558 words)

	The-neighborhood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wertham's legacy is still felt in contemporary efforts to regulate youth access to violent video games and to sue the companies that make them.
		In an era before media effects research, Wertham drew mostly on his own case files, claiming that almost all of the juvenile offenders he worked with were heavy comics readers, which was hardly surprising in a culture where almost 90 percent of all boys read comics.
		Wertham was scathing in his response to anyone who questioned his arguments, accusing anyone who sought to change the comics industry from within of being paid industry apologists (rhetoric which has also been directed against defenders of games).
	www.the-neighborhood.com (1238 words)

	The Friday Review: B Krigstein: Volume One
		At his most righteous, Wertham argued that a comic book that featured a baseball game where the baseball was a human head is a bit unsavory for children.
		Truly, comics were exploitive of horror and gore, but Wertham criticized not only the comics themselves but also a system that allowed such subject matter to be allowed into the hands of children.
		The impact on the industry that Wertham's machinations had are hardly explored in this volume; nor, is Krigstein's reaction to the gutting of the industry, but it is no real surprise that Bernie Krigstein chose to leave the profession shortly thereafter.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=584 (1262 words)

	Penny Arcade - The Henry Jenkins Interview, Pt. II
		Frederick Wertham stirs up panic among parents over comic books and pressure is put on the industry to have a rigid self-regulatory code that is heavily enforced.
		The result is that it becomes impossible to make comic books aimed at adults, the Code restricts subject matter to only what's appropriate for children, and comic sales start to plummet dramatically at that point.
		Japan's comics industry never went through the Wertham era and so have content that spans the whole spectrum in terms of gender and generations.
	www.penny-arcade.com /lodjenkins2.php (1659 words)

	Comics Code Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The code also prohibited advertisements of liquor, tobacco, knives, fireworks, nude pin-ups and postcards, and "toiletry products of questionable nature".
		Frederick Wertham, whose book Seduction of the Innocent helped enflame public antipathy against comics, dismissed the code as an inadequate half measure.
		William Gaines, head of EC Comics among whose best selling titles were Crime Suspenstories, The Vault of Horror and The Crypt of Terror, complained that clauses prohibiting titles with the words "Terror", "Horror", or "Crime", as well as the clause banning vampires, werewolves and zombies, all seemed targeted to put EC out of business.
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/c/co/comics_code_authority.html (456 words)

	It was fifty years ago today ... by Terry Jones \| New Zealand Listener
		In both the US and New Zealand, parents were alerted to a lurking danger to youth by one voice in particular, New York psychiatrist Frederick Wertham.
		Wertham lambasted role models Batman and Robin as closet gays and Wonder Woman as an "unfeminine" lesbian.
		Pertinently, the Senate committee pronounced: "Authorities agree that the majority of comic books are as harmless as soda pop." The response of the comic-banners in the 50s and those in the current TV "debate" seems to be depressingly similar.
	www.listener.co.nz /printable,2276.sm (789 words)

	Re: Seduction of the Innocent - Uncut!! Rare! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The thing that amazes me is the fact that Wertham's screed has never been reprinted, at least in the past few decades.
		After all, Frederick Wertham was a highly intelligent, very well-educated person, who wrote other books far more worthy than SOTI.
		After all, the pictorial rogue's gallery of "bad examples" that helped make Wertham's screed so popular can also be seen as a who's who including many of the best comic book artists of the era.
	www.talkaboutabook.com /group/rec.arts.books/messages/439705.html (571 words)

	The Wonder Woman Pages: Lecture By Dr. Frederick Wertham
		Wertham's remarks in extended form appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature, March 29, 1948.
		But it is only the child who is not equal to the pressure of his environment who will take advantage of the opportunity to all but retire to a fairy tale world.
		Dr. Wertham has emphasized that violence in juvenile delinquency has increased in direct proportion with the spread of comic books among the youth of this country.
	www.wonderwoman-online.com /wertham.html (7476 words)

	Cinemarati Blog » Return of the Geek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wertham studied juvenile delinquency in the ’50s, and came to the conclusion that violent comics were a major contributing cause of it.
		Oh, another element is that investigators will often tend to focus on stuff unfamiliar to them, even if it might be commonplace to their subjects.
		Wertham, growing up in turn-of-the-century Germany before comic books even existed, would be more likely to see them as odd or “bad,” just as people of a certain age now don’t understand kids with their video games, etc.
	www.cinemarati.org /index.php/archives/return-of-the-geek (795 words)

	the comics code...and how it destroyed comics - Penciljack Forum
		Keep in mind that the Code was a response to two things: Frederick Wertham, may he be poked with sharp objects in a very uncomfortable place, and the Federal Government deciding what was and wasn't appropriate for the medium.
		I understand the self imposed nature of the code, however the mere fact that there was the threat of "do this or else" as far as regulation of the medium was concerned is still very much linked to the slow move toward the market we have today.
		[b]Keep in mind that the Code was a response to two things: Frederick Wertham, may he be poked with sharp objects in a very uncomfortable place, and the Federal Government deciding what was and wasn't appropriate for the medium.
	www.penciljack.com /forum/showthread.php?t=33789 (1322 words)

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		Parents scrambling to protect their young and innocent puppies from the horrors available for less than the price of a grass cutting.
		According to Wertham, "Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic industry," and since this is the US Government we're talking about here, a psychologist with half a box of crayons was given full credibility.
		The comic book industry - at the time focusing more on romance, science fiction, westerns, and horror than the super-heroes of today - was forced to create a self-regulating commission in order to avoid being shut down altogether.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3305324&postID=108885059638024390 (792 words)

	Project Genesis: An X-Men Based RPG - Comic Book SUPERHeroes Unmasked
		Those few superheroes who did survive soon faced the wrath of Dr. Frederick Wertham.
		Wertham, a psychiatrist from New York's Bellevue Hospital, became convinced that comic books and superheroes in particular, were destroying the minds of children.
		Though Wertham did not succeed in wiping out comic books altogether, they were now published under a censorship code that reduced their content to grade school level issues.
	projgen.suddenlaunch2.com /index.cgi?board=news&action=display&num=1054232432 (872 words)

	zachsmind.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1954 he would publish The Seduction of the innocent, a book that detailed his now dated and outlandish opinions, but in the early fifties he was adding fuel to the fire of conservative disapproval.
		Good old Dr. Frederick Wertham's book was out by now, and with it he began a series of tours across the country, with panel discussions and public speaking engagements.
		And get this: Dr. Frederick Wertham was the first man to publically accuse Batman and Robin of being homosexuals.
	www.zachsmind.com /entry.asp?Date=12/21/2000 (3599 words)

	The comics code years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the help of psychologist Dr. Frederick Wertham, who, in his notorious book, Seduction of the Innocent, told America that every comic book panel contained sexual images that turned children's minds into those of criminals, perverts, and sadists.
		His book contains many examples of his "insight" into comic sex: extreme close-ups of a crease in a shirt that looks like a female crotch; the pencil that looks like an erect phallus; the shadow that looks like a couple making love (if you look at it upside down and through a magnifying glass).
		As ridiculous as Wertham's arguments were, other more prominent psychologists were able to tell congressional hearings about case histories on young criminals and/or insane youth who read comic books once in a while.
	www.mogozuzu.com /code-yrs.htm (387 words)

	Welcome to The Museum of Black Superheroes
		Ironically, the company singled out as the worst offender produced the most powerful anti-racists comic stories printed before the late 1960s.
		Seduction of the Innocent, a 1954 book by Frederick Wertham, was the bible of the comic book censorship movement.
		Wertham, a liberal psychiatrist found that deeply disturbed young people he evaluated liked comic books.
	www.blacksuperhero.com /articles/art5-Hoffman.html (856 words)

	Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts: Past and future exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the process I play on the homoerotic element that has always veiled the characters, and to some extent the more culturally conservative social context of the 1950s from which the characters emerged.
		In 1954 Dr. Frederick Wertham, psychiatric consultant to the Chief Censor of the United States Treasury Department, published Seduction of the Innocent, a 400-page rant against the comic book industry.
		In it, he claimed that comic books caused violence, delinquency and deviant behavior in children, and was to be blamed for the rise of homosexuality in society.
	www.artnet.com /galleries/exhibitions.asp?gid=423822183&cid=72415 (753 words)

	Across Time and Space: Comics and Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Comics have long existed in the realm of the ideologically suspect, from the lurid sequential picture stories published for working-class amusement in 19th century Britain to Frederick Wertham’s 1958 book, Seduction of the Innocent, which charged comics with warping the minds of children and allowing them to evade ‘real’ reading (qtd.
		At best, comics were seen as children’s material only, and at worst, a lesser form of reading that children needed to be trained out of as soon as possible.
		It was converted to HTML to fulfill the requirements of LIS 600 (Capping Exercise) for the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta.
	www.slis.ualberta.ca /cap03/allison/comicsmain.htm (807 words)

	The Internet and children: finding the right balance on censorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick Wertham, a psychiatrist for the New York Department of Hospitals, issued a warning about media ``corrupting our youth'' and contributing to ``delinquency and sexual perversion of children.'' He called for government regulation to curtail rampant sex and violence in the media.
		Wertham wrote ``Seduction of the Innocent'' in 1954 about the corrupting influence of comic books.
		After a series of Senate hearings, the comic book industry adopted the Comic Code of Authority, which adorned the front cover of many comic books for the second half of the 20th century.
	www.pcanswer.com /articles/sjm_labels.htm (758 words)

	ComicBookWebsites.com - Comic Book History - Wahoo! - The Comic Book Website Directory
		Dr. Wertham was the psychiatric consulant to the Chief Censor of the United States Treasury Department, a lecturer at Yale Law School, a consultant to the Juvenile Aid Bureau and had been the senior psychiatrist for the New York Department of Hospitals.
		For years he had believed comics to be a major cause for the delinquency of the nation's youth and a vocal critic.
		In April 1954, reacting to Wertham's conclusions, the United States Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the United States held public hearings and Wertham testified.
	www.dereksantos.com /comicpage/presilver.html (1577 words)

	Soffitta Macabra : Wertham Interview
		I decided to use it as an excuse to explain some concept behind the WERTHAM project.
		Ok, WERTHAM is run by me (Marco) and occasionally by other friends who're going to help me, especially on the live front.
		WERTHAM, till now, never had spoken about right wing related things/propaganda.
	noiseweb.com /soffmac/wertham.html (1001 words)

	.:The Endless Crew:.
		See, back in the fifties, a psychiatrist named Frederick Wertham decided to get in on the booming business of figuring out why kids do criminal things.
		Wertham, he may have actually believed the swill he was putting out there, but I tend to just give “educated” people a benefit of the doubt they may not necessarily deserve.
		Anyway, Wertham wrote a book called “Seduction of the Innocent” (it may actually still be getting occasional printing if you’re interested), in this book, he claimed to have found the source of juvenile delinquency and homosexuality: comic books.
	www.theendlesscrew.com /view_rant.php?id=32 (1261 words)

	Mobsters.tv - The Untouchables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Made nearly 30 years after the fact, this series still managed to generate interest, and spawn controversy, mainly due to its violent, and intense content.
		You have to remember that this series came at a time when America had recently gotten over the McCarthy hearings, and Dr. Frederick Wertham's fanatical assault on the comic book industry for being to overly violent, and sexual in its subject matter.
		This was a golden age of picket fences, and mom's apple pie, and Robert Stack and his Untouchables were on TV each week to remind us of how easily we could slip again, and that there really was a dark side.
	www.mobsters.tv /tv_mobsters/tv_the_untouchables.htm (219 words)

	Clue
		Leading the charge against horror and crime comics was Dr. Frederick Wertham, senior psychiatrist for the New York Department of Hospitals.
		Unfortunately, his sensationalist book was filled with half-truths, convenient statistics and carefully cropped examples, very convincing to a public looking for a scapegoat for juvenile crime.
		The Senate's report concluded, "This country cannot afford the calculated risk involved in feeding its children, through comic books, a concentrated diet of crime, horror and violence." The publishers again rushed to self-regulate their publications.
	www.uky.edu /Projects/Chemcomics/html/clue_14_c_fe.html (547 words)

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