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| | Wilhelm Busch, Max and Moritz, and Comics |
 | | In 1865, one of the great comic works about two of the baddest boys in the history of childhood, Max and Moritz, first appeared in Munich, Germany. |
 | | Even at the time, the sadistic pranks (and their comeuppance) of Busch's kids were seen as controversial -- it stood the idea of the child as essentially innocent on its head and tweaked its nose. |
 | | And yet many people also found these adventures hilarious, despite their political incorrectness, and Max and Moritz have served as the proto-types for practically every wild child from the Katzenjammer Kids to Dennis the Menace. |
| www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2005/0415.shtml (249 words) |
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