The rise of comic books' popularity coincided with growing concerns among parents, educators, and social critics about their supposed negative influence on America's youth. These fears culminated in a series of high-profile hearings by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954, during which comic books were effectively put "on trial."

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