33: Comics Code Authority

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