Great moral panics of the past: comic books cause delinquency (1954)! http://www.gallup.com/vault/194504/gallup-vault-blaming-comics-teen-delinquency.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=heading&utm_campaign=syndication …
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Replying to @DougHenwood
even huger in Britain https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunt-Fear-Strange-Campaign-Paperback/dp/0878055940 … where it became a Left issue (comics were American you see)
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Replying to @dsquareddigest @DougHenwood
So it was the brainchild of the father of David (and, more ironically, considering) Ben Aaronovitch?
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Replying to @henryfarrell @dsquareddigest
amazing - those Commies have some awful cultural politics
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Funnily enough some of those America comics were created by commies
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CPUSA commies or freelance commies?
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Both! Lev Gleason who published CRIME DOES NOT PAY was CPUSA fellow traveller
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my mother wouldn't let me read comics in the 1960s
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That's a pretty direct result of 1950s anti-comics purge
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