Gene Beato: Government-Issued Comics For Propaganda

How government turned comic books into propaganda.  Comic books, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham argued in a 1953 Ladies Home Journal article that preceded his 1954 best-seller, Seduction of the Innocent, were instruction manuals for everything from shoplifting in department stores to tween lust-murder. If one were to set out how to teach children   ... MORE