“What is Batman?” —Query from Lionel Trilling to Allen Ginsberg in an Aug. 1945 letter. Ginsberg had written Trilling that he’d bought some Batman comic books to better fit in with his U.S. Maritime Service shipmates. Page 177, “The Free World,” Louis Menand.
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I assume he didn’t read Fredric Wertham.
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No, but he would have read Robert Warshow on Werthem (and indeed Trilling wrote the introduction to Warshow's collection of writings on comics & film)
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Eco wrote about batman pre-1945?
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