This time we’re talking about the Comics Code Authority, Crime Comics, Fredric Wertham, and what it all meant for Batman.

 

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Seducing The Innocent (Tiley) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490073

The Ten-Cent Plague (Hajdu) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312428235/thetencentplague/

Seal Of Approval (Nyberg) https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Seal-of-Approval

Seduction Of The Innocent (Wertham) https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/dp/159683000X

Comics Code of 1954 https://cbldf.org/the-comics-code-of-1954/

CRIME Does Not Pay (Digital) https://digital.darkhorse.com/series/219/crime-does-not-pay

 

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00:00:00 Start 00:07:39 Parents & Mothers 00:13:06 Juvenile Delenquincy 00:17:20 Fredric Wertham 00:28:35 All Comics Are Crime Comics 00:33:37 Children's Quotes 00:37:21 Batman 00:48:43 It's All Made Up 00:55:09 The Comics Code 00:57:37 General Standards 01:03:38 No Horror! 01:05:43 No !@#$ 01:08:26 Costume 01:10:00 Marriage 01:11:48 Advertising Matter 01:16:39 Code Thoughts 01:18:12 What We Lost 01:25:55 Crime Does Not Pay 01:33:10 Closing Thoughts