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you'd be hard-pressed to find a more likely candidate than Frederick Wertham.

Wertham was not a cartoonist or a writer.

Rather, he was a German-born psychiatrist who immigrated to the United States, and he would go

on to pen a massively influential book named The Seduction of the Innocent back in 1954.

In his book, Wertham put the blame for the downfall of America's youth firmly at the feet of comic books, which he said

were all full of sex and violence that warped impressionable young minds.

Wertham's book would go on to spark a US congressional inquiry that would eventually bring about the creation of the comics code

that for decades after dictated the sort of content that would be allowed in American Comics.

This caused a massive upheaval throughout the entire comics industry.

Publishers scrambled to overhaul the comics they were publishing in order to make them meet the new comics code rules.

Some publishers like E.C. Comics, who had struck gold putting out violent horror comics like tales from the crypt were nearly driven out of business.

But long before Frederick Wertham wrote his most famous book,

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