Podcast appearances and mentions of Fredric Wertham

Aujourd'hui, Batman, Superman et Wonder Woman sont des icônes de la culture populaire, mais dans les années 1950, leurs aventures illustrées étaient considérées comme une menace pour la jeunesse américaine. À cette époque, des autodafés de bandes dessinées avaient lieu en place publique, des piles de comics brûlées sous les regards sévères d'adultes persuadés de protéger les enfants d'une corruption morale.La peur du déclin moral et l'influence du Dr WerthamAprès la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les États-Unis entrent dans une période de conservatisme intense, marquée par la peur du communisme et une volonté de contrôler les influences culturelles sur la jeunesse. Les comics, avec leurs récits de super-héros, de crimes et d'horreur, deviennent la cible d'une véritable croisade morale.Cette croisade est alimentée par le psychiatre Fredric Wertham, qui publie en 1954 "Seduction of the Innocent". Dans cet ouvrage, il affirme que les bandes dessinées, en particulier celles mettant en scène des super-héros et des criminels, encouragent la violence, la délinquance juvénile et même l'homosexualité. Il critique par exemple la relation entre Batman et Robin, qu'il considère comme une incitation à une "vie homosexuelle" et voit en Wonder Woman un modèle de féminisme trop indépendant, susceptible de détourner les jeunes filles de leur rôle traditionnel.Une chasse aux sorcières culturelleLes conclusions alarmistes de Wertham sont largement médiatisées et conduisent à des réactions extrêmes. Des parents, des enseignants et des groupes religieux organisent des brûlages publics de comics, les traitant de "littérature pernicieuse" qui détourne les enfants des bonnes valeurs. Certains politiciens s'en mêlent, et en 1954, une commission du Sénat sur la délinquance juvénile enquête sur l'impact des comics.Sous la pression, les éditeurs de bandes dessinées instaurent le Comics Code Authority (CCA), une charte de censure stricte qui interdit toute représentation de violence excessive, d'horreur, de crime glorifié et même de certaines thématiques sociales. Résultat : l'industrie du comic book est asphyxiée, de nombreux éditeurs ferment et les récits deviennent édulcorés pendant des décennies.De la censure à la réhabilitationIl faudra attendre les années 1970 et 1980 pour que les comics retrouvent leur liberté créative et soient reconnus comme un art à part entière. Aujourd'hui, les super-héros, jadis brûlés sur les places publiques, dominent Hollywood et la pop culture mondiale. Une revanche éclatante sur la censure d'antan ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

This time we're talking about the Comics Code Authority, Crime Comics, Fredric Wertham, and what it all meant for Batman.   Stickers!! https://py.pl/5lkIFsSutdO Our Website! https://batlessons.com Threads (https://www.threads.net/@batlessons) TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@batlessons)   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    Bat Lessons (https://www.youtube.com/@batlessons) Bat Lessons Clips (https://www.youtube.com/@BatLessonsClips)  Podcast Artwork by Sergio R. M. Duarte (https://www.instagram.com/sergiormduarte/) Podcast Music by Renzo Calma (https://www.instagram.com/renzocalm) Motion Graphics by r2ktalha (https://www.fiverr.com/share/AEpWpY)   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  

São raras as pessoas que se dedicaram a estudar quadrinhos que não ouviram falar de "A Sedução do inocente", livro do psiquiatra alemão Fredric Wertham que, baseado em estudos controversos, desencadeou uma perseguição aos gibis que mudou o mercado para sempre. Sempre citado, mas será que é, de fato, lido? Na íntegra? O livro, que chega ao Brasil via parceria das editoras Noir e Heroica, foi traduzido pelo estudioso dos quadrinhos Nobu Chinen, com notas a cargo do psiquiatra João Paulo Liam Branco Martins, a.k.a. Jotapê Martins, tradutor lendário e onipresente em qualquer gibiteca que se preze. Sem surpreender absolutamente ninguém, as notas que a obra merece (e precisa) são volumosas (mais de 800 verbetes), a ponto de gerarem um segundo livro, "A Reflexão do Inocente", repleto de referências e comentários do Jotapê. Nota do Tradutor em seu auge. Nobu e Jotapê vieram então ao Notas para a primeira grande entrevista desde o anúncio da obra. E o papo foi repleto de informações, inclusive os assuntos mais espinhosos. A campanha das obras está no Catarse: https://www.catarse.me/inocente NOTAS DOS TRADUTORES é uma produção de Carlos Henrique Rutz, Mario Luiz C. Barroso e Érico Assis. Locução de abertura e de encerramento: Bruna Bernardes. Identidade visual: Marcela Fehrenbach. Apoio: LabPub (www.labpub.com.br) COLEÇÃO NOVA DO NOTAS! Carcaju! Rebento! Pedro Prado! Camisetas novinhas lá na Tradushirts: tradushirts.com.br/collections/notas-dos-tradutores

In the 1940s and 50s there was the great American comic book scare. Many serious adults warned that comic books were turning young people into illiterate, criminally violent, sexually deviant political extremists. There were several editorials in newspapers that argued as much. There were groups who organized literal comic book burnings. Local jurisdictions passed laws to limit the sale of comic books. There was even a televised congressional hearing on comic books by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. This was a widespread phenomena that can't be laid at the feet of any one person. But there is one person who did more than anyone to legitimize this panic: Dr. Fredric Wertham. He was a well-credentialed German-American psychiatrist best known for his anti-comics book Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth. The scientific worthlessness of Wertham's theories has been clear to historians of comic books and even some of his contemporaries. However, it wasn't until 2012, three decades after his death, that the full extent of the worthlessness of his anti-comic book work was revealed. After a historian was able to read his raw clinical notes for the first time, it was discovered that many claims in his book Seduction of the Innocent were wholly fabricated. His anti-comic book claims weren't merely the product of sloppy science, but lies and distortions. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/qanonanonymous Theme by Nick Sena (nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. www.qanonanonymous.com

Si je vous demande de penser à un super-héros de chez DC Comics, il y a fort à parier que Batman, Superman ou Wonder Woman vous viendront à l'esprit avant Green Arrow. Aujourd'hui, on parle justement des aventures de Green Arrow par Jack Kirby, qui n'ont pas du tout plu à DC Comics ! La période séparant l'Âge d'Or de la bande dessinée américaine de l'Âge d'Argent est aussi riche que troublée. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les ventes des titres mettant en scène super-héros et super-héroïnes déclinent aux États-Unis. Les justiciers costumés n'ont plus la côte, et le genre super-héroïque, jusqu'alors prédominant, est peu à peu remplacé par d'autres. La romance, l'horreur, le western et la science-fiction évincent les ersatz de Superman et de Batman des kiosques à journaux, tandis que leurs modèles peinent à garder la tête hors de l'eau, et que les artistes doivent s'adapter pour continuer à gagner leur croûte. Dès 1947, Joe Simon et Jack Kirby, déjà derrière la création de Captain America, avaient pressenti la transmutation du marché avec leur titre Young Romance, présentant des aventures sentimentales prétendues réelles, participant grandement à l'évolution des tendances. Mais s'estimant de plus en plus spoliés par les éditeurs, Simon et Kirby décident de lancer leur propre maison d'édition, Mainline Comics, en 1953. Au programme : quatre titres surfant chacun sur un grand courant de l'époque. Malheureusement pour eux, ils ont assurément choisi le pire moment possible pour initier leur projet. À partir de 1950, l'éditeur EC Comics, avec à sa tête Bill Gaines, s'est engagé dans une surenchère d'horreur gore et de violence morbide pour attirer les jeunes lecteurs en manque de sensations fortes, appâtés par des couvertures toujours plus choquantes. Généralement accolées à un discours politique et social, certes implicite, mais extrêmement critique envers la fameuse “American way of life”, les histoires de EC Comics deviennent pour certains et certaines l'incarnation du danger représenté par la bande dessinée, qui pervertirait la jeunesse en la poussant au crime. La panique morale autour des comics de crimes et d'horreur, entretenue par des figures publiques comme le politicien Estes Kefauver et le psychiatre Fredric Wertham, devenu célèbre chez les fans de super-héros pour son livre Seduction of the Innocent, mènera à la création du Comics Code Authority, et surtout à une crise éditoriale majeure, qui verra disparaître près des deux tiers des bandes dessinées publiées à l'époque. Et qui dit moins de comics commercialisés dit moins de travail pour les imprimeurs et les distributeurs. Ce marché fragilisé, dont les différents acteurs font faillite les uns après les autres, couplé à des soucis juridiques avec leur précédent employeur, Crestwood Publications, forcera Jack Kirby et Joe Simon à baisser le rideau de Mainline en 1956, avec seulement quelques publications concrètes au compteur. Cet échec aura épuisé les deux artistes sur tous les plans et émoussé leur longue et solide collaboration. Tandis que Joe Simon décide de quitter le monde du neuvième art pour celui de la publicité et de la presse magazine, Jack Kirby rejoint les rangs de National Comics, qui deviendra DC Comics, avec une toute nouvelle série de science-fiction : Challengers of the Unknown. Une série souvent attribuée au seul génie de Kirby, mais sans doute nourrie de ses derniers échanges avec Joe Simon, et également des idées du scénariste Dave Wood, l'un des créateurs de Animal Man. 1956 est une année charnière pour le genre super-héroïque, la banqueroute de Mainline coïncidant fortuitement avec le retour des héros costumés sur le devant de la scène, en partie à l'initiative de DC Comics. Dans le quatrième numéro du périodique Showcase, l'éditeur présente une nouvelle version de son bolide écarlate, The Flash. Le succès est au rendez-vous, et si le retour en grâce des surhommes costumés va prendre encore quelques années, DC va amorcer un rafraîchissement créatif et éditorial de plusieurs de ses super-héros, dont bon nombre sont cantonnés à des anthologies comme World's Finest, Adventure Comics ou More Fun Comics, faute d'intérêt du lectorat. C'est notamment le cas de Green Arrow, présent à la fois au sommaire de World's Finest Comics depuis 1941 et de Adventure Comics depuis 1946. Il faut dire que le personnage, loin d'avoir rencontré le succès d'un Batman ou d'un Superman, n'a jamais eu droit à une publication à son nom, et a moins souvent l'honneur d'être représenté en couverture. Créé en 1941 par le scénariste Mort Weisinger et le dessinateur George Papp dans les pages de More Fun Comics #73, ce héros à gadget, expert en archerie, s'inspire à la fois de Batman, de Robin des Bois et du serial The Green Archer, diffusé dans les cinémas américain à partir de 1940. C'est dans More Fun Comics #89, publié en 1943, que les origines de Green Arrow et de son sidekick adolescent Speedy nous sont racontées pour la première fois. Oliver Queen, collectionneur d'armes et d'objets des peuples natifs américains, rencontre Roy Harper, un jeune orphelin élevé par une tribu amérindienne isolée après un crash d'avion dont il est le seul survivant. Après avoir déjoué les plans de pilleurs d'antiquités, nos deux héros, tous deux archers accomplis, décident de faire équipe pour combattre le crime, finançant leur croisade avec l'or d'un trésor qu'ils ont découvert dans la réserve indienne. Une origin story qui n'a pas grand-chose à voir avec celle que nous connaissons actuellement, mais on va y revenir. En 1946, le personnage et son acolyte sont transférés de More Fun Comics à Adventure Comics, où son co-créateur George Papp dessinera pendant de nombreuses années ses aventures, accompagné du scénariste Ed Herron, notamment considéré comme le créateur de Red Skull dans les pages de Captain America. Seulement, en 1958, quand George Papp succède à John Sikela au dessin sur Superboy, Green Arrow se trouve dépourvu de dessinateur attitré. L'éditeur Jack Schiff, connaissant les capacités de productions de Jack Kirby sur Challengers of the Unknown, lui propose de reprendre le titre. Kirby n'a alors jamais lu une seule aventure de Green Arrow, mais il a besoin d'argent, alors il accepte et lit quelques épisodes fournis par Schiff pour se faire une idée. Peu convaincu par les illustrés en question, Jack Kirby se dit qu'il pourra quand même faire quelque chose du personnage, pour peu qu'on lui laisse un peu de liberté. Et si cela va s'avérer beaucoup plus difficile qu'il le croit, l'artiste va quand même donner un sacré coup de jeune à Oliver Queen. La première histoire de Green Arrow dessinée par Kirby paraît dans Adventure Comics #250, durant l'été 1958. Écrite par Bill Finger, le co-créateur de Batman, “The Green Arrows of the World” nous permet de découvrir que l'archer vert n'est pas le seul justicier à utiliser un arc et des flèches, bien au contraire. Ayant fait des émules partout sur la planète, Oliver Queen reçoit la visite de différents homologues venus du Japon, de France, ou encore du Mexique. Il y a là un recyclage évident d'une thématique déjà exploitée par Batman quelques années plus tôt, notamment avec l'épisode intitulé “Batmen of All-Nations”, publié en 1955. C'est à partir du numéro suivant, avec “The Case of the Super-Arrows”, que la patte de Jack Kirby commence réellement à se faire sentir. Flèche Verte et Speedy s'y aventurent sur un territoire jusqu'alors rarement exploré au cours de leurs péripéties, celui de la science-fiction. Durant onze épisodes ; écrits alternativement par Ed Herron et Dave Wood, et largement enrichis par les idées de Jack Kirby ; le personnage de Green Arrow s'éloigne peu à peu de l'univers dans lequel il macère depuis sa création pour explorer d'autres mondes et d'autres dimensions, comme dans l'histoire “Prisoners of Dimension Zero”, dont la publication en deux parties est plutôt avant-gardiste pour l'époque. Avec “Green Arrow's First Case”, dans Adventure Comics #256, Jack Kirby et Ed Herron revisitent les origines du super-héros de Star City, oubliant son côté Robin des Bois et son rapport plus que discutable aux natifs américains pour en faire une sorte de Robinson. Désormais, le playboy milliardaire Oliver Queen est devenu Green Arrow après être tombé par-dessus bord lors d'un voyage dans les mers du Sud. Parvenant à atteindre Starfish Island, un îlot vierge et hostile, Oliver y survit en recyclant ses anciens vêtements pour se confectionner un équipement et devient un excellent archer à force d'entraînement. Il utilise alors la végétation pour se fabriquer une nouvelle tenue, ce qui permet de justifier la couleur verte de son accoutrement de vigilant masqué une fois revenu à la civilisation. Il y a quelque chose de particulièrement symbolique dans cette nouvelle origin story, où un jeune occidental fortuné quitte son costume pour renouer avec la nature et repartir à zéro autant humainement que socialement. Certes, la recette n'est pas des plus surprenantes, mais ça sonne toujours mieux que de s'enrichir en volant le patrimoine amérindien, si bien que cette version restera la base de toutes les réécritures suivantes, jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Contrairement à ce à quoi on pourrait s'attendre, les responsables éditoriaux de DC Comics ; Mort Weisinger, le co-créateur de Green Arrow, en tête ; n'apprécient pas du tout l'approche de Jack Kirby. Pour eux, le personnage n'a rien à faire dans des récits de science-fiction et, pour d'obscures raisons, ils préfèrent visiblement conserver son statut de "sous-Batman avec un arc". Kirby se fâche finalement avec Jack Schiff, pour une sombre histoire autour du strip Sky Masters, publié dans la presse, et c'est Lee Elias, connu pour ses provocantes couvertures gores chez Harvey, qui le remplace pour dessiner Green Arrow. Jack Kirby retourne chez Atlas, qui prendra très bientôt le nom de Marvel Comics, et ne remettra plus les pieds chez DC Comics avant 1970, pour développer son Quatrième Monde dans des séries comme Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, New Gods, ou Mister Miracle, y réutilisant notamment des concepts esquissés dans ses épisodes de Green Arrow. À partir de 1961, avec Stan Lee et Steve Ditko, Kirby va œuvrer à la création de pratiquement toutes les figures majeures de l'univers Marvel, qui continuent de nos jours à vivre moult aventures sur le papier et remplissent les salles de cinéma de blockbuster en blockbuster, depuis plus de deux décennies. L'artiste s'en donnera à cœur joie dans les pages des Fantastic Four ; sorte d'évolution super-héroïque des Challengers de l'Inconnu ; ou de Thor, dans lesquelles la célèbre "Méthode Marvel" de Stan Lee lui laissera une très grande autonomie créative. Que seraient devenus Green Arrow et l'univers DC à l'orée du Silver Age si le Roi des Comics était resté chez l'éditeur ? Se souviendrait-on d'Oliver Queen autrement que comme d'un second couteau utilisant des flèches-gadgets un brin kitsch ? Malgré les travaux de Neal Adams et Dennis O'Neil, de Mike Grell, Phil Hester, Kevin Smith, Jock, ou Jeff Lemire, et la longévité non négligeable de la série télévisée Arrow de la CW, l'archer vert reste, encore de nos jours, loin derrière la sainte trinité de DC comics en termes de renommée et d'impact sur la culture populaire. Pourtant, découvrir, ou redécouvrir, les aventures de Green Arrow, c'est aussi traverser les différentes périodes de l'histoire des comic books et en appréhender les tentatives et les tendances sous un autre jour. Une expérience que je vous recommande si vous voulez ajouter une corde à votre arc ! N'hésitez pas à partager cet article sur les réseaux sociaux s'il vous a plu ! Recevez mes articles, podcasts et vidéos directement dans votre boîte mail, sans intermédiaire ni publicité, en vous abonnant gratuitement ! Get full access to CHRIS - POP CULTURE & COMICS at chrisstup.substack.com/subscribe

Hollywood and Wall Street have obvious reasons to be obsessed with I.P. (Intellectual Property) because its consistently proven moneymaking abilities. But, how does it actually enrich the storytelling experience? In 2008, Henry Jenkins was asking these questions in his book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. I'm joined on this episode by Rehman Nizar Ali, as we discuss:- The Matrix (a trilogy at the point of the book's publication) as the ideal model of transmedia;- how the “mothership” transmedia model has dominated;- what the abandonment of Star Wars canon means for — up to this point — the most sophisticated canon.Also:- There are still more James Bond movies than MCU movies;- the super-hero genre, fatigued or not, as one of empowerment;- what video game to film adaptation has the best potential to work;- and Fredric Wertham's resurgent reputation.Henry Jenkins is a professor at the University of Southern California; previously, he was the director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. He is the author and/or editor of twenty books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture, and By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism. He also co-hosts How Do You Like It So Far?, a podcast about popular culture in a changing world. More can be found on his blog.Rehman Nizar Ali is co-editor of recent films for Terrence Malick including A Hidden Life, Song to Song, and Voyage of Time. Other works include commercials for Facebook, Google, Guerlain, and most recently the museum video installation Dioses y Maquinas! You can also find him at his website.Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide is published by NYU Press, and is available online or brick and mortar bookstores.

Monsieur Parker n'était pas Amazing - Le Monsieur Parker dont nous allons parler aujourd'hui n'est pas Spider-Man, loin s'en faut. Au contraire Daniel Parker fut un ennemi farouche des bandes dessinées américaines (et pas seulement). Certains verraient en lui, l'équivalent français de Fredric Wertham (ennemi farouche des comics aux USA). Figure de la censure puritaine en France, Parker fût l'un des architectes de la "fameuse" loi de juillet 1949 sur les publications liées à la jeunesse. Mais nous allons voir ensemble en quoi Daniel Parker était pire que Fredric Wertham. Ou comment conjuguer Boris Vian avec l'histoire des comics en France. La page-mère d'Aventures Fiction - ⁠⁠www.aventuresfiction.com⁠⁠ Aventures Fiction fonctionne grâce au soutien de nos (très) sympathiques tipeurs sur cette page ⁠⁠http://tinyurl.com/uk8h33dw⁠⁠ Aventures Fiction est dispo sur iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Overcast, Castbox, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic et bien d'autres plateformes... La liste mise à jour des plateformes disponibles : ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/AventuresFiction⁠⁠ Vous pouvez aussi utiliser ce flux rss pour écouter sur votre lecteur de podcast favori ⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/s/279e66b0/podcast/rss⁠⁠ #comics #censure #danielparker

O Mindflayer Mandou é um podcast derivado do canal RPGMind, onde batemos um papo sobre cenários, sistemas e outros assuntos que rodeiam o mundo fantástico do RPG, sempre com bom humor e referências culturais que denunciam nossa idade. E nesse episodio vamos falar sobre The Witcher 3. Em maio de 2015, aqueles que apreciam joguinhos eletrônicos (e que tinham um videogame ou PC minimamente decente), puderam pôr as mãos no terceiro jogo da série de videogames The Witcher. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, colocou de vez nosso amado Geraldão no mapa, com uma boa jogabilidade, gráficos lindões, uma direção de arte absurda e, principalmente, escolhas morais que tinham impacto real na história. Era um mundo de fantasia desgraçado, de causar inveja em Ravenloft? Era, mas também era maravilhoso. Nem parecia a mesma empresa que nos traria Cyberpunk 2077. “E o que isso tem a ver com RPG, meu lindo e habilidoso escritor destas intros que ninguém lê?” Pois bem, meu caro ouvinte-leitor, eu explico: esse é o primeiro episódio da nossa série especial “O Mindflayer jogou”, onde falaremos sempre de joguinhos eletrônicos que amamos do ponto de vista de RPGistas (então dá um desconto que a gente não é “gamer profissional”). E dessa vez trazemos os mais diversos assuntos possíveis sobre nosso bruxeiro favorito: vale a pena ir atrás dos livros que servem de base para a franquia? Henry Cavill é bonito demais para ser o Geralt? Como é possível escolher entre Triss e Yennefer? Conheça ainda nosso convidado especial, José Paulo, e descubra que ele não manja nada de homem bonito. Saiba também como os mutagênicos dos bruxos podem ser a solução para depilação facial definitiva (menos nos jogos, porque a CD Projeckt RED aparentemente prefere homens barbudos - com o que simpatizo), e descubra porque A Sedução dos Inocentes, de Fredric Wertham, acabou com a pureza do Vitor. Links: - Instagram do RPGMind. - Youtube do RPGMind. - Twitter do RPGMind. O Minflayer Jogou: The Witcher 3 ‎Host, Design e Edição:  Vitor Hugo‎‎‎ ‎Participantes:‎‎ ‎‎ Ritielle Souza ‎|José Paulo | Urion.‎‎ ‎ Design e Edição: Ritielle Souza.‎‎ ‎ ‎Voz da Vinheta:‎‎ ‎Reinaldo Rodriguez.‎ Para mais posts do RPGMind no MRPG clique aqui!

Welcome to the Halloween 2022 Yancy Street Special! Who is Marvel's Satana? How has she evolved over the years? Why is Chris Claremont to blame for her bastardization? These answers and so much more, coming your way! Text to go along with the podcast: http://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/full-archive/satana-hellstrom-the-devils-daughter-satanic-panic-seduction-of-the-innocent-the-comics-code-full-character-history  Image Post: http://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/full-archive/satana-the-devils-daughter-the-image-post  This podcast proudly contains far more information on Satana than any single one of her wiki or fan pages, so I'm pleased and excited to share it with the world.  On that note: some CW for sexual assault, violence against women, topics of heaven and hell, extreme personal loss, murder, attempted fratricide, sacrifice, satanic panic, classic horror tropes, general violence and lewdness, etc. The special starts with a little necessary Background, including Horrosploitation, Dr. Fredric Wertham's 1954 Seduction of the Innocent, and the implementation of the Comics Code Authority. We then continue the timeline into the eventual relaxation of the code in 1971, and the ensuing horror trends of the 1960's-80's.  With that context in mind, we can begin talking Satana, starting with her (admittedly few) Key Comics: 0:16:44 Her various Aliases and names she's been called through the years, plus when it happened: 0:19:45 The Hellstrom Extended Family, which spread across multiple species and still holds a fair amount of mystery: 0:20:47 Satana's complete Teams and Teammates: 0:27:17 Her Allies, specifically those who are not teammates: 0:31:12 Love Interests, of course, which is surprisingly minor: 32:27 And then her Enemies, I'm sure fewer than you might expect: 0:33:21 Satana's Outfits/Physical Appearance, which has vastly changed through the years, and my breakdown of those changes: 0:37:34 Her half-demon Succubus Powers: 0:40:50 Alternate Reality/Format Versions of Satana: 0:42:38 And finally, her whole life and comic History: 0:45:22, including but not limited to the following categories: Early life; Turn for the Better, Turn for the Worst; the Basilisk; Death for Doctor Strange; Resurrection; Occultist for Hire, Thunderbolts/Dark Avengers; Between Time; All-New, All-Different Hell (and more Vegas, Baby!); and finally, her most recent appearances in Captain Marvel.  I wrap up this special with a finale I worked to put all of what I've learned and discovered into account, which I'm calling, simply, Satana's Duality: 1:08:20. It is my desire that listeners who get this far might be inspired to also care about the character of Satana, and we can see more of her in the comics, properly, again.  The Yancy Street Discord! https://discord.gg/kNq4VvA7  -Yancy Street Specials: https://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/full-archive/category/yancy-st-specials -Beginner's Guide to Comics: https://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/beginners-guide-to-comic-books.html   !!Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sensational-she-geek-live-from-yancy-street/id1550410718   !!Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/45qGcYnP147aZBVIHC09lI?si=cb8b8c1a4f8c4ac7   !!Pandora https://www.pandora.com/podcast/sensational-she-geek-live-from-yancy-street/PC:74557   Find me on Instagram: @annawiththecomics https://www.instagram.com/annawiththecomics/   Podcast Updates on Twitter: @savageshegeek https://twitter.com/savageshegeek   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-KoazT-HEFbqCALjxRLjFQ   Website/Blog: https://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/   Donation and All Other Links https://linktr.ee/sensationalshegeek  

EC Comics, a name that brings to mind Fredric Wertham and the coming of the Comics Code, also brings to mind some very well-done comics by the likes of Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Williamson, and more. IDW has just released an Artist's Edition of original EC art by Wood, Kurtzman, Williamson, Jack Davis, and … Continue reading #755 “Best of EC Stories, Artisan Edition”

It's Spooky Season, y'all! This month the Always YA panel classifies themselves as Spooky, Scary, or Slasher. We all share some YA book picks to read during October, and Susan shares some interesting info about the history horror comics. Listen if you dare! Instagram: @alwaysyapod Email: alwaysyapod@gmail.com Media mentioned in this episode: The Sandman streaming on Netflix, based on the graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. Prey (2022) streaming on Hulu. Kingdom streaming on Netflix. All of Us Are Dead streaming on Netflix. Cobra Kai streaming on Netflix. Hocus Pocus 2 streaming on Disney+. Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism streaming on Amazon Prime on September 30th. Sonia Saraiya. The Karate Kid, Cobra Kai, and the Odd Legacy of Mr. Miyagi. Vanity Fair, July 3, 2019. Dade Hayes. ‘Cobra Kai' KOs ‘Bridgerton' On Nielsen Streaming List; ‘Soul' Enters Limbo State. Deadline, February 8, 2021. Problematic Fave podcast on Spotify. Darren Mooney. The Karate Kid Movies Explore Hollywood's Complicated Martial Arts History. The Escapist, January 1, 2021. Haiyang Yang and Kuangjie Zhang, The Psychology Behind Why We Love (or Hate) Horror. Harvard Business Review, October 26, 2021. Merphy Napier's Youtube video How Reading Fiction Affects Your Brain explains the benefit of reading Stephen King's Pet Sematary in helping her process grief. Mike Duran, ordained minister and author of Christian Horror: On the Compatibility of a Biblical Worldview and the Horror Genre, blog post “Is Beowulf the First “Religious Horror” Story Ever Written?” published July 28, 2015. “The Top 10 Most Watched Shows During Quarantine.” Daily Infographic, September 5, 2021. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley. Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV, Deluxe hardcover edition book one (collects comic #1-15). The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu. Fredric Wertham. What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books. Ladies Home Journal, November 1953. Joe Sergi. 1948: The Year Comics Met Their Match. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. June 8, 2012. “How America Almost Destroyed The Comic Book Industry”. CNBC, YouTube, July 17, 2021. Provides a brief overview of the censorship of horror comics. The documentary Comic Book Confidential includes footage from the testimony of Bill Gaines, founder of EC Comics and later Mad Magazine, at the 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. You can watch some clips from the hearings on YouTube. Kelly McEvers, These 'Paperbacks From Hell' Reflect The Real-Life Angst Of The 1970s. NPR, October 26, 2017. Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories by Ray Bradbury, Fantagraphics Books, 2022.

Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: “SKYSCRAPER SLAYER,” “BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB” read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again—and enthrall the nation. The young man who committed the murders would come to be known in the annals of American crime as the Mad Sculptor.Caught up in the Easter Sunday slayings was a bizarre and sensationalistic cast of characters, seemingly cooked up in a tabloid editor's overheated imagination. The charismatic perpetrator, Robert Irwin, was a brilliant young sculptor who had studied with some of the masters of the era. But with his genius also came a deeply disturbed psyche; Irwin was obsessed with sexual self-mutilation and was frequently overcome by outbursts of violent rage.Irwin's primary victim, Veronica Gedeon, was a figure from the world of pulp fantasy—a stunning photographer's model whose scandalous seminude pinups would titillate the public for weeks after her death. Irwin's defense attorney, Samuel Leibowitz, was a courtroom celebrity with an unmatched record of acquittals and clients ranging from Al Capone to the Scottsboro Boys. And Dr. Fredric Wertham, psychiatrist and forensic scientist, befriended Irwin years before the murders and had predicted them in a public lecture months before the crime.Based on extensive research and archival records,The Mad Sculptor recounts the chilling story of the Easter Sunday murders—a case that sparked a nationwide manhunt and endures as one of the most engrossing American crime dramas of the twentieth century. Harold Schechter's masterful prose evokes the faded glory of post-Depression New York and the singular madness of a brilliant mind turned against itself. It will keep you riveted until the very last page.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio.

February 4, 1955. In a New York courtroom, the Comics Czar takes the stand. He's in charge of enforcing a new code, meant to keep comic books from corrupting America's youth, and he's here to prove that his work has cleaned up the industry. But that afternoon, a noted psychologist named Fredric Wertham argues that his work has not nearly gone far enough. When the hearing comes to a close, the committee is left to decide: what is the future of the comic book? Why did one of the country's leading psychologists see them as a major threat to American children? And what can the Great Comic Book Scare teach us about moral panics?Special thanks to our guests, David Hajdu, author of The Ten-Cent Plague, and Jeremy Dauber, author of American Comics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Les comics d'aujourd'hui sont-ils gangrénés par la représentation de la diversité et par un omniprésent message de tolérance ? Retour dans les années 1950, une époque bénie où on nous emmerdait pas avec toutes ces conneries ! A long time ago… Régulièrement, on peut voir une partie du lectorat fan de comic books se plaindre du contenu politisé de certaines publications. Aujourd'hui, d'après eux, les comics déborderaient de messages plus ou moins cachés prônant la diversité et défendant les positions de ce que certains et certaines appellent “le wokisme”. Si l'un des derniers exemples en date est la révélation de la bisexualité de Jon Kent, le fils et successeur de Superman, la liste est longue comme le bras. Que ce soit sur le papier avec Miss Marvel, de confession musulmane, ou au cinéma avec le comédien afro-américain Jeffrey Wright dans le rôle du commissaire Gordon du “The Batman” de Matt Reeves, la moindre évolution d'un personnage fait monter au créneau toute une frange de l'opinion. Mettons les choses au clair tout de suite : les histoires de super-héros ont toujours été politisées et chargées d'un message social. Dire le contraire, c'est mentir. Dès le premier numéro de Action Comics en 1938, Jerry Siegel et Joe Shuster mettent en scène Superman en train de corriger un mari violent et un politicien véreux. En 1946, dans son show radiophonique, Il affronte même des suprématistes blancs dans “Clan of the Fiery Cross”, adapté en comic book chez DC Comics sous le titre “Superman Smashes the Klan”. Dans les années 1970, d'autres personnages vont cristalliser les travers de l'Amérique dans leurs aventures. Le duo formé par Green Lantern et Green Arrow, sous la plume de Dennis O'Neil et le crayon de Neal Adams, va traverser les États-Unis et mettre en exergue les fléaux qui gangrènent le pays : racisme, drogue, sexisme, et dérives sectaires… En 1972, Luke Cage, alias Power Man, co-créé par Archie Goodwin, Georges Tuska et Billy Graham, montre le visage des ghettos où les afro-américains sont abandonnés par un système imprégné par le ségrégationnisme et la discrimination raciale. Toujours chez Marvel, à partir de 1975, les X-Men de Chris Claremont se posent en défenseurs du pacifisme, de l'humanisme et de la tolérance alors qu'ils sont eux-mêmes rejetés par la société qu'ils s'efforcent de protéger. Et que dire d'un personnage comme Captain America, qui dès sa première aventure, en 1941, va carrément mettre une droite à Adolf Hitler en personne ? Si comme une bonne partie de la première vague de super-héros du Golden Age apparue durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, il va jouer le jeu de la propagande américaine en encourageant l'effort de guerre, à partir des années 1970, Steve Rogers incarnera une autre vision des États-Unis, allant jusqu'à s'opposer physiquement à un président piétinant les valeurs pour lesquelles il se bat. Tout aussi politique et symbolique, mais beaucoup moins docile. Ce ne sont là que les exemples les plus connus et les plus flagrants du sous-texte social et politique présent dès les premiers pas de nos super-héros préférés. Les comics ont toujours été le reflet de la société dans laquelle ils étaient produits. Et si cette affirmation est sûrement plus vraie que jamais, penser que les publications du XXème siècle étaient totalement neutres en terme d'idéologie, et bien c'est faux. Et de la même façon, si vous avez tout à fait le droit d'être en désaccord avec les messages véhiculés par les comic books d'aujourd'hui, vous ne pouvez pas leur reprocher de contenir ces messages, car cela fait partie de la nature même de la bande dessinée américaine depuis qu'elle existe. Space Oddity Fondé en 1944 par le pionnier du comic book Max Gaines, Educational Comics, qui deviendra plus tard Entertaining Comics, se spécialise tout d'abord dans des adaptations en bande dessinée de la Bible et de l'histoire des États-Unis. Quand Max décède accidentellement en 1947, c'est son fils William qui reprend la société et donne une nouvelle direction à EC Comics. La particularité de William Gaines, c'est qu'il n'y connait rien aux comic books. Se destinant à devenir enseignant, c'est plus par respect de l'héritage familial que par passion qu'il va reprendre la maison d'édition, se contentant dans un premier temps de maintenir la ligne éditoriale établie par son père. Mais EC Comics est lourdement endetté et c'est grâce à l'intervention du dessinateur Al Feldstein, qui encourage Gaines à revoir son catalogue et à surfer sur les tendances en publiant des récits policiers, des westerns ou des histoires de romances, que l'éditeur va atteindre un certain équilibre financier. Gaines et Feldstein , tous deux amateurs d'horreur et de fantastique, vont tenter de publier quelques histoires dans ces styles qui ont le vent en poupe chez les jeunes, et rapidement constater que c'est un succès. À partir de 1950, les périodiques de EC Comics se transforment peu à peu en poussant les curseurs toujours plus loin. Les histoires policières mettent en scène des meurtres sordides toujours plus gores, et les comic books de guerre ou de romance sont renommés pour devenir des magazines d'horreur ou de science-fiction remplis de monstres et présentant plusieurs courtes histoires caractérisés par leur chute toujours plus choquante ! The Vault of Horror, Tales from the Crypt et The Haunt of Fear forment le trio de tête du catalogue EC Comics qui va inspirer pratiquement tous les autres éditeurs de l'époque, entraînant le marché dans une surenchère sanguinolente qui aura bientôt d'importantes répercussions sur l'histoire des comics, mais je vais y revenir. William Gaines, qui a grandi en lisant des pulp's, va également plébisciter la publication de récits de science-fiction dans ses magazines, un genre qui trouve un souffle nouveau à cette période, inspiré par les peurs d'invasions et de conflits nucléaires nées de la Guerre Froide. Et justement, maintenant que le contexte est posé, revenons-en au sujet principal de cet article : Judgment Day, une histoire de science-fiction publiée par EC Comics en 1953. Such a lovely color for you Paru pour la première fois dans le dix-huitième numéro de Weird Fantasy, Judgment Day, écrit par Al Feldstein et dessiné par Joe Orlando, est un récit typique de l'époque. Courte histoire de 7 pages, elle met en scène Tarlon, un astronaute terrien envoyé par la république galactique sur la planète Cybrinia afin de déterminer si celle-ci mérite ou non d'être intégrée au consortium qu'il représente. Cybrinia a la particularité d'être habitée par des robots laissés ici en autonomie par les humains pour y développer leur propre société. Et alors qu'il visite l'usine dans laquelle les êtres artificiels sont fabriqués par leurs semblables, Tarlon s'étonne de n'avoir croisé jusque là que des robots de couleur orange. L'émissaire terrien apprend alors de son guide que les robots bleus, eux, vivent dans un quartier à part, nommé “Blue Town”, et que dans le bus pour s'y rendre, les robots orange et les bleus ne doivent pas se mélanger, chacun ayant une place prédéfinie, à l'avant ou à l'arrière. Une fois à Blue Town, Tarlon demande à visiter l'usine dans laquelle les robots bleus sont fabriqués et il découvre, assez étonné, que le procédé est tout à fait identique à celui des robots orange, excepté la phase d'éducation, durant laquelle les robots bleus sont conditionnés pour être serviles et rester cantonnés aux tâches les plus ingrates, alors qu'il n'existe aucune justification à cela. Lorsqu'il questionne son guide orange quant à cette situation, ce dernier explique qu'il en a toujours été ainsi et qu'en tant que simple individu, il ne peut rien faire pour changer l'ordre établi sur Cybrinia. Tarlon quitte alors la planète en informant son hôte que son monde n'est pas prêt pour rejoindre la république galactique, mais que si son peuple se remet en question, tout espoir n'est pas perdu car il fut un temps où les habitants de la Terre avaient, eux-aussi, des difficultés à vivre ensemble. Une fois en route vers la Terre à bord de sa navette, Tarlon retire son casque et c'est le visage d'un homme noir qui est révélé au lecteur. Si, aujourd'hui, cette parabole pourrait sembler un peu moralisatrice et dépourvue de finesse, elle expose pourtant en seulement quelques pages tous les problèmes et les non-sens nés du racisme et de la ségrégation, et ça à tous les niveaux d'un système. Et c'est aussi effrayant que décourageant de constater que pratiquement soixante-dix ans plus tard, la situation n'a pas vraiment changé. En fait, lors de sa publication en 1953, Judgment Day sera très bien accueillie par les lecteurs et bon nombre d'entre eux témoigneront même que cette courte histoire les a poussé à se remettre en question. Mais quand EC Comics décide de réimprimer le court récit dans le trente-troisième numéro de Incredible Science Fiction en 1956, c'est une autre histoire… Sauvons la jeunesse ! Car entre temps, le monde de la bande dessinée américaine a changé. Au début des années 1950, l'Amérique cherche un nouveau bouc émissaire à qui attribuer la hausse des chiffres de la délinquance. Sous l'impulsion de livres comme Seduction of the Innocent de Fredric Wertham, de la commission menée par le sénateur Estes Kefauver, et du magistrat Charles F. Murphy, les comic books se retrouvent au centre de l'attention comme grands responsables de la déchéance de la jeunesse qui sombre peu à peu dans la criminalité. Bien avant que l'on accuse le Heavy Metal, les Jeux de Rôles ou le Jeu Vidéo de transformer les adolescents en créatures immorales et sanguinaires, les comics ont fait l'objet d'une campagne de désinformation menée par des politiques, des intellectuels et des religieux adeptes de raccourcis faciles et préférant s'en prendre à l'art plutôt que de regarder en face l'échec d'un système qu'ils entretiennent pour préserver leur petit confort. Ainsi, alors que l'on assiste dans plusieurs états à des autodafés durant lesquels d'honnêtes citoyens détruisent les comics qui pervertissent leurs enfants, il est décidé en 1954 de mettre en place la Comics Code Authority, un organisme d'autorégulation visant limiter les dérives des publications destinées à la jeunesse. Le Code impose dès lors de nombreuses règles aux bandes dessinées publiées par les éditeurs américains, parmi lesquelles l'interdiction de représenter le crime ou tout autre activité illégale sous un jour favorable, de ne jamais encourager le lecteur à remettre en question l'autorité en place, ou bien encore l'obligation de toujours faire triompher le bien face au mal. Ces grands principes s'accompagnent d'une large censure des thèmes abordés et des images pouvant être montrées : le Code interdit le sexe, la nudité, les scènes gores, la violence excessive, la torture, le cannibalisme, les morts-vivants, les vampires, les loups-garous, ainsi que tout ce qui est jugé “contre-nature” ou “anormal” à l'époque, comme l'homosexualité ou toute forme de fétichisme. De plus, plus aucun magazine ne pourra utiliser les mots “Horror” ou “Terror” dans son titre. Le respect de ces règles assure aux publications de pouvoir porter sur leur couverture le sceau “Approved by the Comics Code Authority“, et ainsi d'avoir la possibilité d'être distribuées en toute légalité, là où une bande dessinée dépourvue du célèbre logo risquait tout bonnement d'être refusée par les kiosques et ainsi de représenter une perte considérable pour l'éditeur qui ne pouvait alors plus écouler ses stocks. Si dans un premier temps, on peut penser que certaines des règles du Comics Code sont plutôt bénéfiques et limitent les dérives, on comprend assez rapidement que beaucoup d'entre elles sont largement soumises à interprétation lors du passage des publications devant la commission. Et c'était d'autant plus vrai dans le cas de EC Comics, qui, entre ses histoires horrifiques en grande partie à l'origine de la polémique et le caractère bien trempé de Bill Gaines, avait tout pour être dans le viseur du juge Murphy. Aussi, lorsque la réimpression de Judgment Day fut présentée avant sa publication, Charles F. Murphy déclara à Feldstein que le héros ne pouvait en aucun cas être noir, et ça sans aucune justification. S'ensuivit une prise de bec musclée entre le juge, l'auteur et l'éditeur, à l'issue de laquelle EC Comics refusa catégoriquement de changer quoi que ce soit à l'histoire. Pour vous dire à quel point Murphy tenait à avoir gain de cause, incontestablement pour emmerder Gaines, il n'y a pas d'autre mot, et bien face à la détermination de ce dernier, il aurait demandé à ce que les gouttes de sueur présentes sur le visage du personnage principal soient retirées. Une exigence absolument surréaliste qui, une fois encore, ne peut absolument pas être justifiée par l'une des règles du Comics Code. L'histoire sera finalement republiée telle quelle, sans prendre en considération les objections de la CCA. Un acte fort qui signera également la fin d'une époque pour EC Comics. Weird ScienceLa vérité, c'est qu'il existe un sous-texte peu glorieux et typique du puritanisme américain au Comics Code. Si celui-ci demande à ce que les femmes soient représentées de manière réaliste et le moins sexualisées possible, c'est pour mieux en faire des demoiselles en détresse ou de sages ménagères attendant un providentiel héros masculin, de préférence blanc et bien viril. Car si le Comics Code interdit aussi toute forme de discrimination, la commission s'assure tout de même que chacun reste bien à sa place, dans un pays où la ségrégation est toujours en vigueur en 1956 et où il faut veiller à ne pas attiser les revendications sociales des afro-américains. En fait, la principale règle outrepassée implicitement par Judgment Day était certainement celle de ne pas contredire le pouvoir en place. Prôner l'égalité et la tolérance entre des robots, pourquoi pas, mais en mettant en scène un personnage principal qui aurait lui-même était la cible de discriminations à l'époque, EC Comics va trop loin pour la Comics Code Authority. Bien avant que Stan Lee ne défie le Code en publiant une histoire traitant du problème de la drogue chez les jeunes dans les pages de Spider-Man, ou que le Swamp Thing d'Alan Moore ne s'affranchisse définitivement de l'estampille de la CCA, William Gaines et Al Feldstein ont été des précurseurs et EC Comics en a payé le prix. En ne se pliant pas aux règles imposées, l'éditeur s'est mis dans une situation très délicate qui l'obligera à abandonner la publication de comic books pour se concentrer sur des périodiques au format magazine échappant à la censure du Comics Code, dont le plus célèbre reste sans conteste MAD. Un triste sort qui rappelle pourtant le rôle majeur de la fiction, en l'occurrence de la science-fiction, et l'importance d'un art populaire accessible au plus grand nombre dans l'évolution des mentalités. De Victor Hugo à Star Trek, en passant par la Doom Patrol ou même The Witcher, chaque œuvre porte un message qui reflète les préoccupations de son temps. Qu'il s'agisse de conflits sociaux, de l'acceptation de la différence, ou de la nécessité d'une prise de conscience collective, ces thématiques parfois bien cachées pèsent pourtant bien plus qu'on ne pourrait le croire dans l'amélioration de notre quotidien quand les œuvres en question touchent des millions de personnes. Pour l'anecdote, et pour comprendre à quel point la science-fiction a encore du travail, il faudra attendre 1983 pour que Guion Bluford devienne le premier astronaute afro-américain à aller dans l'espace. Soit 14 ans après qu'on ait marché sur la Lune. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur EC Comics et sur cette histoire, je vous recommande de jeter un oeil au livre EC Comics : Race, Shock & Social Protest de Qiana Whitted, qui m'a été très utile pour l'écriture de cet article. N'hésitez pas à partager cet article sur les réseaux sociaux s'il vous a plu ! Recevez mes articles, podcasts et vidéos directement dans votre boîte mail sans intermédiaire ni publicité en vous abonnant gratuitement ! Get full access to CHRIS - POP CULTURE & COMICS at chrisstup.substack.com/subscribe

In this final installment of our moral panic series, as well as our final episode of 2021, we go into various banned books, fears about literature's effect on "weaker minds," the hearings on comic books and juvenile delinquency, and what makes a moral panic. Whether it's murders attributed to Catcher in the Rye or the big boss battle between Fredric Wertham and William Gaines, there's plenty of historical examples to draw from. Then Ben wraps up with some considerations (and criticisms) of moral panic theory and how it can be misapplied.

Below find a re-release of one of our favorite episodes of all time. It's a battle for the ages! It's Em vs. Frederic Wertham! No holds barred!-------------------------------Uncovering the Bronze Age #005 (encore) -- Uncovering the CodeOriginally released October 31, 2014This Halloween, Em delves into one of the most terrifying, bone-chilling topics known to comic fandom -- Seduction of the Innocent and the Comics Code Authority!Follow along on the journey through the mind of one of the most infamous names in all of comic book history. What you find may SURPRISE, THRILL, and DISTURB you!Intellectual analysis and academic criticism abound in this PULSE-POUNDING episode. And prepare for the SHOCKING twist ending that closes out our tale.This is the story of Dr. Fredric Wertham ...Click on the player below to listen to the episode Right-click to download episode directly You may also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or the RSS Feed.Send e-mail feedback to relativelygeeky@gmail.comPromo: In CountryFeaturing the Voices of:Noel Thingvall: Masters of CarpentryStephen Lacey: The FantasticastPaul Spataro: Back to the Bins.The Irredeemable Shagg: Fire & Water Podcast(The late) Shawn Engel: Just One of the Guys.Bibliography:Seduction of the Innocent by Frederick Wertham, MD. Copyright Rhinehart and Co. Inc, 1954The Comics Code: 1954, SeductionOfTheInnocent.OrgTales from the Code, CBLDF.org"Fredric Wertham: Anti-Comics Crusader Who Turned Advocate" by Dwight Decker(Essay about Wertham and the creation of "The World of Fanzines")Additional reading:"Seducing the Innocent: Frederick Wertham and the Falsifications that Helped Condemn Comics." Carol L. Tilley. Information and Culture: A Journal of History, 47 (4). 2012.The Study of Man: Paul, the Horror comics, and Dr Wertham, Commentary Magazine (1954) (A contemporary article from a father about his son's comic reading habit) The Testimony of William Gaines (Transcript: April 22nd, 1954)(Other transcripts, including Wertham's testimony, also available)

Phil & Jake rank the fictional vampire-hunter Blade, the first (and best) installment of The Matrix film franchise, and bricks on the List of Every Damn Thing.VOTE HERE to help choose which item on the List of Every Damn Thing should be re-ranked in an upcoming episode (you can vote once a day).If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).SHOW NOTES: We of course talk a lot about the Blade movies and Wesley Snipes. When reviewing Snipes' early work, we only mention Major League briefly and don't even talk about how he didn't come back for the sequel. We also mention Passenger 57 and Demolition Man. Sticky Fingaz from Onyx was the star of the short-lived Blade TV series. We talk about the history of horror themes in comics. We don't really get into EC Comics, Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham, or the U.S. Congressional inquiry and Comics Code Authority that followed, but we could talk for days about that if you let us. Here's the cover of Tomb of Dracula #10, featuring the first appearance of Blade. Marvel Comics characters discussed in this episode include Morbius (The Living Vampire), Werewolf by Night, the X-Men (especially Gambit), Ghost Rider, the Avengers and of course Dracula. We bring up John Woo, the Hong Kong-based action director. He's best known in the US for Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II. His HK work was very influential also. Yuen Woo-Ping is a director and choreographer based in Hong Kong who's also done a lot of work in American movies (The Matrix and Kill Bill for example). We talk about non-Marvel Cinematic Universe movies such as the 1989 Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie, Howard the Duck, X-Men and Ghost Rider. We do get into the MCU a little bit, with the upcoming Blade movie starring Mahershala Ali. We talk about a whole lot of other action movies, including Mortal Kombat (1995), John Wick, Speed Racer, Police Story, Drunken Master II and Die Hard. Daybreakers starring Ethan Hawke is a very smart (but also very dumb) movie that's a lot more fun than it needs to be. It's about a world where almost everyone's already been bitten by vampires and blood is getting scarce. We guess it's about oil? The recently-cancelled, long-running show The Venture Brothers' character of Jefferson Twilight is a Blade parody who specializes in killing vampires of African descent. Blacula is a 1972 film that Phil saw on broadcast TV as a child, but it fell out of rotation. Phil mentions, but forgets the title of, Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again. Here's the scene where he transforms.  In pop-singer Bebe Rexha's video for "Sacrifice" she restages a couple sequences from Blade. The song has a real early 90s club sound to it, that's what the kids want these days. In the episode, Phil says you don't see a lot of references to Popeye in pop culture. We forgot about Ludacris' legitimately terrifying video for "Get Back". Laurence Fishburne is Phil's wife's favorite actor. When he shows up she always hopes it means everything up to that point in the movie was inside the Matrix. It's almost never true though. The Three Little Pigs should have a back-to-basics reboot. Kids only know the deconstructed versions now. There are deconstructed, ironic takes on the story going back to the 1930s! We just want a straight-up fable about planning ahead. We mention the Reginald Denny incident, which Ice Cube references in the song in “Natural Born Killaz”. Brickbats are bricks used as weapons. Here's an illustration of a member of the Dead Rabbits with a brickbat. Krazy Kat (AKA Krazy & Ignatz) is a comic-strip in which one character loves to throw a brick at the other. Brick chicken is chicken that you cook by putting a brick on it. You can use a similar method to make a panini as well. Usually people wrap it in foil but Phil doesn't. He's a wild man. Brick ovens are excellent for making naan bread or pizzas because they can get to very high temperatures.  Note on the term “brick shithouse”: This is used with men as well as women. Phil remembers reading a description of Lebron James that said he was built like a brick shithouse. The song "Brick House" by the Commodores was written by Shirley Hanna-King, while her husband slept! Here's some discussion of why "Brick House" as a slang term never really took off. We think the main problem is the shit connection. Few people when they're talking about someone attractive want to also make a reference to an outhouse. Here's a pic of the “earthquake bricks” that Jake talks about. ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:Marv Wolfman * Gene Colan * Jim Brown * Guillermo del Toro * Nicolas Cage * Jackie Chan * Kris Kristofferson * Stephen Dorff * Twilight * Buffy the Vampire Slayer * Anne Rice * Interview With the Vampire * Queen of the Damned * Traci Lords * Randy Quaid * Popeye * Charmander * Dan Aykroyd * Will Smith * Boyz n the Hood * Apocalypse Now! * the Wachowskis * Keanu Reeves * Fight Club * Jackie Chan * Matrix 4 * Carrie-Anne Moss * Trading Places * The Truman Show * Batman: The Animated Series * The Three Stooges * Shakira * Bill Paxton * firefighters * Larimer Square in Denver * cubed ice * dilapidated shacksBelow are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):TOP TEN:1. Dolly Parton - person2. interspecies animal friends - idea3. Clement Street in San Francisco - location4. Prince - person5. It's-It - food6. Cher - person7. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character8. Donald Duck - fictional character9. Hank Williams - person10. air - substanceBOTTOM TEN:151. carpets - decoration152. broken glass - substance153. Jenny McCarthy - person154. Jon Voight - person155. Hank Williams, Jr - person156. McRib - food157. war - idea158. cigarettes - drug159. QAnon - idea160. transphobia - ideaTheme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Email us at list@everydamnthing.net. 

Katlang! fu un collettivo che, tra il 2007 e il 2013, autoprodusse diversi progetti sperimentali, partendo dal classico spillato antologico per poi stampare fumetti in scatola, bocciofile di carta, fumetti in pasta e addirittura al metro! Con Giulio Bonatti, Sara Morabito, Enrico Bertelli e Dario Grillotti abbiamo ripercorso le attività del collettivo, evidenziando che il vantaggio più importante dell'autoproduzione è prendersi il lusso di fare quello che un editore non potrebbe mai fare! Potete dare uno sguardo alle attività di Katlang! su: Sito: https://web.archive.org/web/20160115063723/http://www.katlang.altervista.org/ Blogspot: http://katlang.blogspot.com/ Forum: https://katlang.forumfree.it/ Kina!: https://web.archive.org/web/20120402105230/http://kina.katlang.it/ Risorse, titoli e link utili citati nel podcast: Lo Schiaffo Edizioni in "Le figure dei libri": http://www.lefiguredeilibri.com/2009/05/17/editori-alternativi-schiaffo-edizioni-cerca-illustratori/ Fumetti in busta: https://fumettinbusta.it/ La puntata di Podcast Povero con Flavia Biondi: https://www.mecenatepovero.it/podcast-povero/podcast-povero-s1-3 Manticora Autoproduzioni: http://gruppo-manticora.blogspot.com/ Fredric Wertham, psichiatra autore di "Seduction of the Innocent" e "The World of Fanzines", su Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Wertham "Tokyo" di Sara Menetti su Mammaiuto: https://www.mammaiuto.it/category/tokyo/ Per anticipazioni sulla prossima puntata, seguite Mecenate Povero su Facebook e Instagram. Per continuare a fangirlare sul fumetto autoprodotto, visitate www.mecenatepovero.it e sosteneteci su www.patreon.com/mecenatepovero

Katlang! fu un collettivo che, tra il 2007 e il 2013, autoprodusse diversi progetti sperimentali, partendo dal classico spillato antologico per poi stampare fumetti in scatola, bocciofile di carta, fumetti in pasta e addirittura al metro! Con Giulio Bonatti, Sara Morabito, Enrico Bertelli e Dario Grillotti abbiamo ripercorso le attività del collettivo, evidenziando che il vantaggio più importante dell'autoproduzione è prendersi il lusso di fare quello che un editore non potrebbe mai fare! Potete dare uno sguardo alle attività di Katlang! su: Sito: https://web.archive.org/web/20160115063723/http://www.katlang.altervista.org/ Blogspot: http://katlang.blogspot.com/ Forum: https://katlang.forumfree.it/ Kina!: https://web.archive.org/web/20120402105230/http://kina.katlang.it/ Risorse, titoli e link utili citati nel podcast: Lo Schiaffo Edizioni in "Le figure dei libri": http://www.lefiguredeilibri.com/2009/05/17/editori-alternativi-schiaffo-edizioni-cerca-illustratori/ Fumetti in busta: https://fumettinbusta.it/ La puntata di Podcast Povero con Flavia Biondi: https://www.mecenatepovero.it/podcast-povero/podcast-povero-s1-3 Manticora Autoproduzioni: http://gruppo-manticora.blogspot.com/ Fredric Wertham, psichiatra autore di "Seduction of the Innocent" e "The World of Fanzines", su Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Wertham "Tokyo" di Sara Menetti su Mammaiuto: https://www.mammaiuto.it/category/tokyo/ Per anticipazioni sulla prossima puntata, seguite Mecenate Povero su Facebook e Instagram. Per continuare a fangirlare sul fumetto autoprodotto, visitate www.mecenatepovero.it e sosteneteci su www.patreon.com/mecenatepovero

Katlang! fu un collettivo che, tra il 2007 e il 2013, autoprodusse diversi progetti sperimentali, partendo dal classico spillato antologico per poi stampare fumetti in scatola, bocciofile di carta, fumetti in pasta e addirittura al metro! Con Giulio Bonatti, Sara Morabito, Enrico Bertelli e Dario Grillotti abbiamo ripercorso le attività del collettivo, evidenziando che il vantaggio più importante dell'autoproduzione è prendersi il lusso di fare quello che un editore non potrebbe mai fare!Potete dare uno sguardo alle attività di Katlang! su:Sito: https://web.archive.org/web/20160115063723/http://www.katlang.altervista.org/Blogspot: http://katlang.blogspot.com/Forum: https://katlang.forumfree.it/Kina!: https://web.archive.org/web/20120402105230/http://kina.katlang.it/Risorse, titoli e link utili citati nel podcast:Lo Schiaffo Edizioni in "Le figure dei libri": http://www.lefiguredeilibri.com/2009/05/17/editori-alternativi-schiaffo-edizioni-cerca-illustratori/Fumetti in busta: https://fumettinbusta.it/La puntata di Podcast Povero con Flavia Biondi: https://www.mecenatepovero.it/podcast-povero/podcast-povero-s1-3Manticora Autoproduzioni: http://gruppo-manticora.blogspot.com/Fredric Wertham, psichiatra autore di "Seduction of the Innocent" e "The World of Fanzines", su Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Wertham"Tokyo" di Sara Menetti su Mammaiuto: https://www.mammaiuto.it/category/tokyo/Per anticipazioni sulla prossima puntata, seguite Mecenate Povero su Facebook e Instagram. Per continuare a fangirlare sul fumetto autoprodotto, visitate www.mecenatepovero.it e sosteneteci su www.patreon.com/mecenatepovero

It seems like Almost Yesterday that hundreds of comic books and magazines, judged as indecent and unfit for children, were ceremonially burned in Cape Girardeau . The date was February 24, 1949, and the location was St. Mary’s High School on the corner of Sprigg and William Streets. This large burning was one of many that emerged across the nation in 1948-49, seeking to eliminate the perceived dangers of the “new” graphic comic books. In the Depression years of the 1930’s, comic books gained widespread popularity, and began to attract criticism for the vivid use of violence. But, World War II brought even greater use of graphic violence, and by the end of the war more than 60 million comic books per month were being sold in the United States. In 1948 critics of this new and popular form of entertainment found an articulate voice in Dr. Fredric Wertham, a German-born medical doctor, who blamed comic books for the troubling new behavior in youngsters. In 1948 Dr. Wertham published a

🎃 ¡Bienvenidos a nuestro especial de Halloween! 🎃 Entra oyente y descubre la terrorífica historia de la censura en los cómics y de una malvada figura llamada Fredric Wertham. En este programa podrás esuchar una dramatización de una historia recogida en Crime SuspenStories Nº 22, una de las míticas cabeceras antológicas de EC Comics que desaparecieron con la aprobación de Comics Conde Authority a medidados de los años cincuenta. En este Zona de Cañas queremos debatir a propósito de la relación que distintos organismos y personalidades de la época establecieron entre cómics y delincuencia juvenil. ¿Tenían alguna base sus críticas? ¿Se basaba todo en su ignorancia y sus prejuicios hacia el medio? ¿Necesitaban algún tipo de regulación este tipo de historias? ¿Lo necesitan hoy en día? Colaboradores: Mònica Rex, Raúl Gutiérrez, Miguel Ángel Crespo, Fer García, Sergio Fernández, Nacho Teso, Diego García Rouco y Jordi T. Pardo Reparto de la dramatización del relato En todos los paquetes recogido en Crime SuspenStories Nº 22: -Nacho Teso como Narrador -Sergio Fernández como Norman Cracken -Mònica Rex como Bertha Cracken/Sally -Jordi T. Pardo como Chico -Raúl Gutiérrez como Bert Collie Suscríbete a nuestro podcast en... iVoox - https://bit.ly/znpivoox Spotify - https://bit.ly/znpspo Apple Podcasts - http://bit.ly/znpapple Google Podcast - http://bit.ly/znpgoogle Y búscanos en tu app de podcast favorita. Música de entrada y salida: -IkouZe ! - acoustic - Sumashu 👉 https://bit.ly/ZNPintro Música de intermedio: -No more tears - Ozzy Osbourne 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprfjfN5PRs Música utilizada para la dramatización de la historia Crime SuspenStories Nº 22 (1954) de Johnny Craig y Reed Crandall: -Tales from the Crypt - Danny Elfman 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd3JwibzD_U -¡Oh, Willow Waly! - Isla Cameron 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0uNJp15p3M -Sintonía El Precio Justo (1988 - 1993) 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txz7YYt6ktU Para estar al día de todo el mundo del cómic y sus galaxias cercanas, ¡visita Zona Negativa!

🎃 ¡Bienvenidos a nuestro especial de Halloween! 🎃 Entra oyente y descubre la terrorífica historia de la censura en los cómics y de una malvada figura llamada Fredric Wertham. En este programa podrás esuchar una dramatización de una historia recogida en Crime SuspenStories Nº 22, una de las míticas cabeceras antológicas de EC Comics que desaparecieron con la aprobación de Comics Conde Authority a medidados de los años cincuenta. En este Zona de Cañas queremos debatir a propósito de la relación que distintos organismos y personalidades de la época establecieron entre cómics y delincuencia juvenil. ¿Tenían alguna base sus críticas? ¿Se basaba todo en su ignorancia y sus prejuicios hacia el medio? ¿Necesitaban algún tipo de regulación este tipo de historias? ¿Lo necesitan hoy en día? Colaboradores: Mònica Rex, Raúl Gutiérrez, Miguel Ángel Crespo, Fer García, Sergio Fernández, Nacho Teso, Diego García Rouco y Jordi T. Pardo Reparto de la dramatización del relato En todos los paquetes recogido en Crime SuspenStories Nº 22: -Nacho Teso como Narrador -Sergio Fernández como Norman Cracken -Mònica Rex como Bertha Cracken/Sally -Jordi T. Pardo como Chico -Raúl Gutiérrez como Bert Collie Suscríbete a nuestro podcast en... iVoox - https://bit.ly/znpivoox Spotify - https://bit.ly/znpspo Apple Podcasts - http://bit.ly/znpapple Google Podcast - http://bit.ly/znpgoogle Y búscanos en tu app de podcast favorita. Música de entrada y salida: -IkouZe ! - acoustic - Sumashu 👉 https://bit.ly/ZNPintro Música de intermedio: -No more tears - Ozzy Osbourne 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprfjfN5PRs Música utilizada para la dramatización de la historia Crime SuspenStories Nº 22 (1954) de Johnny Craig y Reed Crandall: -Tales from the Crypt - Danny Elfman 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd3JwibzD_U -¡Oh, Willow Waly! - Isla Cameron 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0uNJp15p3M -Sintonía El Precio Justo (1988 - 1993) 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txz7YYt6ktU Para estar al día de todo el mundo del cómic y sus galaxias cercanas, ¡visita Zona Negativa!

FIRST NIGHT: Hosts Jacob Balcom & Matt Howell kick the show off w/ a brief overview of horror comics, Fredric Wertham's comics code, and the explosion of horror titles from Marvel Comics in the early '70s. The first appearance of The Werewolf/Jack Russell in Marvel Spotlight #2 is reviewed.

Adivinha, doutor, quem tá de volta na praça? Ou melhor, quem nunca saiu da praça. Censura, autoritarismo, ódio pelas minorias… Esse é um HQ Sem Roteiro Extra sobre o episódio da tentativa de censura feita pelo prefeito Marcelo Crivella a uma HQ e a várias outras publicações à venda na Bienal do Livro do Rio de Janeiro. Uma reflexão ligeira sobre o Brasil de 2019, os Estados Unidos de Fredric Wertham em 1954, e o mundo de hoje em diante. Ouve aí e, não se esqueça, os cães ladram mas a caravana não pode parar. *A imagem de capa do arquivo desse programa foi feita a partir da capa do jornal Folha de São Paulo do dia 7 de setembro de 2019. Contribua com o Cat [...]

In the 1950s, America declared war on the comic book. People feared that they’d turn children into hardened criminals, and so opponents burned them in large piles, states banned them, and the U.S. Senate investigated their dangers. The man leading the charge was a psychologist named Fredric Wertham, whose research fueled people’s fears. In this episode, we take a close look at Wertham to ask: How does someone come to yield so much cultural influence? And how should the rest of us react? Get in touch: Twitter: twitter.com/pessimistsarc Web: pessimists.co Email: pessimistsarchive@gmail.com

Sometimes it's leather, sometime it's spandex... In this week, Lysa and James discuss homosexuality, overt and subtextual, in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin. CONTENT WARNINGS: mentions of homophobia (Fredric Wertham), Nazi Germany (Captain America), and abusive relationships (Harley Quinn and the Joker).  Spoilers for the movie and some other Batman franchise movies and comics.  Support this podcast

From 1964 until 2011 comic books were nominally approved by a content regime called the Comics Code Authority. The Authority grew out of anti-comic book sentiment in the early part of the twentieth century. Anti-comics advocates like Fredric Wertham portrayed […]

On December 13, 1934, Albert Fish was apprehended by Detective William King for the kidnapping and murder of ten-year-old Grace Budd. Fish’s defense attorney obtained the services of Dr. Fredric Wertham for Fish’s psychiatric examination. Dr. Wertham’s files were ordered closed until 2010. Documents from Wertham’s files, including confessions and writings by Albert Fish, are published here for the first time in history.FULLY ILLUSTRATED - INCLUDING: CONFESSIONS AND OTHER WRITINGSIncludes never before seen documents handwritten by Albert Fish.FISH’S OWN STORY OF WEIRD LIFE: Written by Albert Fish for the NY Daily Mirror Newspaper.FROM THE FILES OF DR. WERTHAM: Fish’s Psychiatric Examinations and Rorschach Test Results.MASKS HAVE NO EARS: From Dr. Fredric Wertham’s Book, The Show of Violence.ALSO INCLUDES: Court Documents, Correspondence, Grace Budd & Billy Gaffney Confessions, newspaper excerpts, photographs, and Fish's Vile Letters. ALBERT FISH IN HIS OWN WORDS-John Borowski

En 1954, a raíz de una histeria conservadora en los EEUU, las editoriales de historietas de ese país decidieron a autoregular sus contenidos violentos, sexuales, y de horror (entre otras cosas), para evitar que lo hicieran los gobiernos locales o federales. Establecieron el Comics Code Authority, sello que llevaron sus revistas y las de otras tantas por varias décadas. ¿Cuánto tuvo que ver el reaccionario psiquiatra Fredric Wertham y su libro "Seduction Of The Innocent? ¿Qué otros intereses influenciaron ¿Qué editorial lo desafío primero? ¿Cómo cayó finalmente? Repasamos la historia de este sello y comisión de censura, sus efectos sobre lo que leímos durante mucho tiempo, la percepción actual sobre los comics en las Américas, y hasta algún posible efecto positivo sobre algún género. Imagen: Sello y texto de folleto de época, ver folleto entero en http://bit.ly/2GZKjmh. Con música de Bill Haley & His Comets, y Styx. Próximo programa: Tommy Wiseau, The Room, y The Disaster Artist.

Our guest this week is Carol Tilley. Disguised as a mild-mannered Midwestern library and information science professor, Carol Tilley is actually the Comics Crusader, whose 2013 research debunked evidence used by 1950s anti-comics advocate Fredric Wertham. A 2016 Eisner Award judge, Carol is also president-elect of the Comics Studies Society and an in-demand speaker on comics history. For show notes visit http://kk.org/cooltools/carol-tilley-information-science-professor/

Volney Gay is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a professor of religious studies, psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University and author of the new book On the Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of American Slavery. During this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Volney and Chauncey discuss how black chattel slavery was pleasurable for white people, anti-black violence throughout American history, the psychology of white supremacy, and white racial paranoia thinking. Volney also explains how anti-black violence helps to constitute Whiteness and the power of sadism together with racism in Donald Trump's appeal to his supporters. This Thanksgiving week's episode also features some bonus content that can be heard at the end of the show. Gabriel Mendes stops by the virtual bar and salon to discuss his new book Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry. Gabriel shares some hidden history about how Dr. Fredric Wertham --who is most famous for his campaign against comic books--worked with the great Richard Wright to make mental health services more accessible to the residents of Harlem during the 1940s.  In this week's episode, Chauncey DeVega explains why right-wing Christians like Roy Moore prey on young girls and how this is connected to the so-called "purity" movement where fathers take a vow to protect their young daughters' virginity. And reflecting on the real meaning of Thanksgiving, Chauncey also shares Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12) about the imminent threat posed by white Americans to First Nations people.

Infamously known as the author of the 1954 book 'Seduction of the Innocent' + blamed for the demise of the Golden Age of comics, German psychiatrist Fredric Wertham is more than a censorship scapegoat. Cathy + e discuss his career as a medical psychiatrist, advocate for African American mental healthcare, + talk about the biases + legitimacies behind this controversial figure.For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2017/8/18/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-4

In this episode of Doghair Presents Rory has decided to explain the Comics Code Authority, that has been mentioned in several episodes, to Ross. It's a rather interesting piece of comic book history. The clip at end is Fredric Wertham speaking at the 1954 senate hearing mentioned in the episode. If you want get in touch with the show for any other reason, tweet us @doghairnetwork or Rory @HangoverReviews or email us thedognetwork@gmail.com Go to doghairnetwork.com for everything you've ever wanted out of life* *provided all you've ever wanted is podcasts

Stephen King and George Romero combine forces to celebrate the wonderfully horrific EC Comics created by MAD Magazine creator William M. Gaines in the 1950’s, then taken down by Dr. Fredric Wertham’s infamous book, Seduction of the Innocent. A great cast romps through five spooky stories with such aplomb, how could it not be fun??

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: There's something wrong with your alternate dimension offspring! Inhumans get small, Comic Book History of Comics #1, Reggie and Me #1, Brigands #1, and Transfatty Lives! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! NEWS Inhumans headed to the small screen REVIEWS STEPHEN "Comic Book History of Comics #1 Writer: Fred Van Lente Artist: Ryan Dunlavey Publisher: IDW Publishing For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in four-color glory! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Herge, Osamu Tezuka – and more!" MATTHEW "REGGIE AND ME #1 Script: Tom DeFalco Art: Sandy Jarrell, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jack Morelli $3.99 U.S. There is no one more loved, revered, admired and adored in Riverdale than… Reggie Mantle? Well, at least Reggie doesn't think there's anyone as loved and admired as himself. And his best friend can back that idea up—his best friend, of course, being his dog, Vader. The unstoppable duo is known around town for pulling the funniest pranks, getting the hottest dates and throwing the best parties. And if anyone even dares to compete with them, there is going to be hell to pay. Come take a look at the life of your hero, the handsome, hilarious Reggie Mantle." RODRIGO "BRIGANDS #1 Writer(s): Ram V Artist Name(s): Nick Barber, Jason Lewis, Kel Nuttall Pulled from death row and recruited by the secretive inquisition to steal an artifact called The Myros Pendulum, Stilian Desault now paired with an old colleague, Veina must put together a group of Brigands for the heist of their lives. But there are no happy endings or quick deaths for battle-forged blades. Stilian will soon discover that things are about to go very wrong. ASHLEY TRANSFATTY LIVES Directed by: Patrick O'Brien At 30, Patrick O'Brien was TransFatty, a New York City DJ, internet personality, and filmmaker. He spent his days as a beer-drinking creative force, making art films about perverts, vulnerable souls, and Howard Johnson's restaurants. Then his legs started shaking. MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK Favorite Harry Potter Movie If you want to suggest a trade paperback, you need to send an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com. That suggestion will go into the hopper and at least once a month, we'll pick a number of suggestions for you to vote on, and at the end of the polling period, the book with the most votes will get the Major Spoilers Podcast treatment. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: There’s something wrong with your alternate dimension offspring! Inhumans get small, Comic Book History of Comics #1, Reggie and Me #1, Brigands #1, and Transfatty Lives! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! NEWS Inhumans headed to the small screen REVIEWS STEPHEN "Comic Book History of Comics #1 Writer: Fred Van Lente Artist: Ryan Dunlavey Publisher: IDW Publishing For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in four-color glory! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Herge, Osamu Tezuka – and more!" MATTHEW "REGGIE AND ME #1 Script: Tom DeFalco Art: Sandy Jarrell, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jack Morelli $3.99 U.S. There is no one more loved, revered, admired and adored in Riverdale than… Reggie Mantle? Well, at least Reggie doesn’t think there’s anyone as loved and admired as himself. And his best friend can back that idea up—his best friend, of course, being his dog, Vader. The unstoppable duo is known around town for pulling the funniest pranks, getting the hottest dates and throwing the best parties. And if anyone even dares to compete with them, there is going to be hell to pay. Come take a look at the life of your hero, the handsome, hilarious Reggie Mantle." RODRIGO "BRIGANDS #1 Writer(s): Ram V Artist Name(s): Nick Barber, Jason Lewis, Kel Nuttall Pulled from death row and recruited by the secretive inquisition to steal an artifact called The Myros Pendulum, Stilian Desault now paired with an old colleague, Veina must put together a group of Brigands for the heist of their lives. But there are no happy endings or quick deaths for battle-forged blades. Stilian will soon discover that things are about to go very wrong. ASHLEY TRANSFATTY LIVES Directed by: Patrick O'Brien At 30, Patrick O’Brien was TransFatty, a New York City DJ, internet personality, and filmmaker. He spent his days as a beer-drinking creative force, making art films about perverts, vulnerable souls, and Howard Johnson’s restaurants. Then his legs started shaking. MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK Favorite Harry Potter Movie If you want to suggest a trade paperback, you need to send an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com. That suggestion will go into the hopper and at least once a month, we’ll pick a number of suggestions for you to vote on, and at the end of the polling period, the book with the most votes will get the Major Spoilers Podcast treatment. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.

In his 1948 essay, “Harlem is Nowhere,” Ralph Ellison decried the psychological disparity between formal equality and discrimination faced by Blacks after the Great Migration as leaving “even the most balanced Negro open to anxiety.” In Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), Gabriel Mendes undertakes an engaging study of race and mental health in the 20th century through the lens of an overlooked Harlem clinic. While providing the first in-depth history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-58), the book focuses on the figures who came together in a seemingly unlikely union to found it: Richard Wright, the prominent author; Fredric Wertham, a German Jewish emigre psychiatrist now known for his advocacy for censorship of comic books; and The Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, an important Harlem pastor. Wright's literary prowess, work for the Communist party, and brush with Chicago School sociology met with Wertham's socially-conscious and uncompromising brand of psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream psychiatric theory and its discriminatory practices in the Jim Crow North. Those who could afford it were charged 25 cents for sessions in the basement of St. Philip's Episcopal church in Harlem, and 50 cents for court testimonials. A thoroughgoing grassroots effort, ignored by philanthropists and state funding, the Lafargue Clinic throws mid-20th Century mental health and race relations into relief, and is sure to stir interest in the untold stories of projects like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his 1948 essay, “Harlem is Nowhere,” Ralph Ellison decried the psychological disparity between formal equality and discrimination faced by Blacks after the Great Migration as leaving “even the most balanced Negro open to anxiety.” In Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), Gabriel Mendes undertakes an engaging study of race and mental health in the 20th century through the lens of an overlooked Harlem clinic. While providing the first in-depth history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-58), the book focuses on the figures who came together in a seemingly unlikely union to found it: Richard Wright, the prominent author; Fredric Wertham, a German Jewish emigre psychiatrist now known for his advocacy for censorship of comic books; and The Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, an important Harlem pastor. Wright’s literary prowess, work for the Communist party, and brush with Chicago School sociology met with Wertham’s socially-conscious and uncompromising brand of psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream psychiatric theory and its discriminatory practices in the Jim Crow North. Those who could afford it were charged 25 cents for sessions in the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal church in Harlem, and 50 cents for court testimonials. A thoroughgoing grassroots effort, ignored by philanthropists and state funding, the Lafargue Clinic throws mid-20th Century mental health and race relations into relief, and is sure to stir interest in the untold stories of projects like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his 1948 essay, “Harlem is Nowhere,” Ralph Ellison decried the psychological disparity between formal equality and discrimination faced by Blacks after the Great Migration as leaving “even the most balanced Negro open to anxiety.” In Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), Gabriel Mendes undertakes an engaging study of race and mental health in the 20th century through the lens of an overlooked Harlem clinic. While providing the first in-depth history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-58), the book focuses on the figures who came together in a seemingly unlikely union to found it: Richard Wright, the prominent author; Fredric Wertham, a German Jewish emigre psychiatrist now known for his advocacy for censorship of comic books; and The Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, an important Harlem pastor. Wright's literary prowess, work for the Communist party, and brush with Chicago School sociology met with Wertham's socially-conscious and uncompromising brand of psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream psychiatric theory and its discriminatory practices in the Jim Crow North. Those who could afford it were charged 25 cents for sessions in the basement of St. Philip's Episcopal church in Harlem, and 50 cents for court testimonials. A thoroughgoing grassroots effort, ignored by philanthropists and state funding, the Lafargue Clinic throws mid-20th Century mental health and race relations into relief, and is sure to stir interest in the untold stories of projects like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

In his 1948 essay, “Harlem is Nowhere,” Ralph Ellison decried the psychological disparity between formal equality and discrimination faced by Blacks after the Great Migration as leaving “even the most balanced Negro open to anxiety.” In Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), Gabriel Mendes undertakes an engaging study of race and mental health in the 20th century through the lens of an overlooked Harlem clinic. While providing the first in-depth history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-58), the book focuses on the figures who came together in a seemingly unlikely union to found it: Richard Wright, the prominent author; Fredric Wertham, a German Jewish emigre psychiatrist now known for his advocacy for censorship of comic books; and The Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, an important Harlem pastor. Wright’s literary prowess, work for the Communist party, and brush with Chicago School sociology met with Wertham’s socially-conscious and uncompromising brand of psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream psychiatric theory and its discriminatory practices in the Jim Crow North. Those who could afford it were charged 25 cents for sessions in the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal church in Harlem, and 50 cents for court testimonials. A thoroughgoing grassroots effort, ignored by philanthropists and state funding, the Lafargue Clinic throws mid-20th Century mental health and race relations into relief, and is sure to stir interest in the untold stories of projects like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his 1948 essay, “Harlem is Nowhere,” Ralph Ellison decried the psychological disparity between formal equality and discrimination faced by Blacks after the Great Migration as leaving “even the most balanced Negro open to anxiety.” In Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), Gabriel Mendes undertakes an engaging study of race and mental health in the 20th century through the lens of an overlooked Harlem clinic. While providing the first in-depth history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-58), the book focuses on the figures who came together in a seemingly unlikely union to found it: Richard Wright, the prominent author; Fredric Wertham, a German Jewish emigre psychiatrist now known for his advocacy for censorship of comic books; and The Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, an important Harlem pastor. Wright’s literary prowess, work for the Communist party, and brush with Chicago School sociology met with Wertham’s socially-conscious and uncompromising brand of psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream psychiatric theory and its discriminatory practices in the Jim Crow North. Those who could afford it were charged 25 cents for sessions in the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal church in Harlem, and 50 cents for court testimonials. A thoroughgoing grassroots effort, ignored by philanthropists and state funding, the Lafargue Clinic throws mid-20th Century mental health and race relations into relief, and is sure to stir interest in the untold stories of projects like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his 1948 essay, “Harlem is Nowhere,” Ralph Ellison decried the psychological disparity between formal equality and discrimination faced by Blacks after the Great Migration as leaving “even the most balanced Negro open to anxiety.” In Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), Gabriel Mendes undertakes an engaging study of race and mental health in the 20th century through the lens of an overlooked Harlem clinic. While providing the first in-depth history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-58), the book focuses on the figures who came together in a seemingly unlikely union to found it: Richard Wright, the prominent author; Fredric Wertham, a German Jewish emigre psychiatrist now known for his advocacy for censorship of comic books; and The Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, an important Harlem pastor. Wright's literary prowess, work for the Communist party, and brush with Chicago School sociology met with Wertham's socially-conscious and uncompromising brand of psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream psychiatric theory and its discriminatory practices in the Jim Crow North. Those who could afford it were charged 25 cents for sessions in the basement of St. Philip's Episcopal church in Harlem, and 50 cents for court testimonials. A thoroughgoing grassroots effort, ignored by philanthropists and state funding, the Lafargue Clinic throws mid-20th Century mental health and race relations into relief, and is sure to stir interest in the untold stories of projects like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In his 1948 essay, “Harlem is Nowhere,” Ralph Ellison decried the psychological disparity between formal equality and discrimination faced by Blacks after the Great Migration as leaving “even the most balanced Negro open to anxiety.” In Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), Gabriel Mendes undertakes an engaging study of race and mental health in the 20th century through the lens of an overlooked Harlem clinic. While providing the first in-depth history of the Lafargue Clinic (1946-58), the book focuses on the figures who came together in a seemingly unlikely union to found it: Richard Wright, the prominent author; Fredric Wertham, a German Jewish emigre psychiatrist now known for his advocacy for censorship of comic books; and The Reverend Shelton Hale Bishop, an important Harlem pastor. Wright's literary prowess, work for the Communist party, and brush with Chicago School sociology met with Wertham's socially-conscious and uncompromising brand of psychoanalysis to challenge mainstream psychiatric theory and its discriminatory practices in the Jim Crow North. Those who could afford it were charged 25 cents for sessions in the basement of St. Philip's Episcopal church in Harlem, and 50 cents for court testimonials. A thoroughgoing grassroots effort, ignored by philanthropists and state funding, the Lafargue Clinic throws mid-20th Century mental health and race relations into relief, and is sure to stir interest in the untold stories of projects like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

Olá mergulhadores ! Mais uma vez, mergulhamos profundamente (ui!) nos quadrinhos para discutir algo melhor que os próprios: sexo ! Nesse episódio, discutimos episódios de sexo nos quadrinhos, sejam eles eróticos, pornôs, de ação ou qualquer outro estilo ! Dudu Bandeira, Guilherme Smee, Fabiomesmo e Santiago Castro, acompanhados dos convidados especiais Annie O'Reilly, J.R. Weingartner Jr., e Mario Cesar Oliveira (http://www.masquemario.net/), comentam sexo nas hqs, em momentos marcantes ou não, bem construídos ou gratuitos, sempre com intervenções precisas do saudoso Alborghetti. (00:00:26) Abertura/Apresentação; (00:02:50) Monstro do Pântano de Moore e o pansexualismo na DC comics; (00:04:47) Outras obras sexuais de Alan Moore (e são muitas); (00:09:15) A sedução dos inocentes/Fredric Wertham; (00:15:42) Sexualidade e violência nos quadrinhos nos anos 80 e 90 - erros mais comuns; (00:19:00) Tina, Porra, Maurício e a Mulher-Hulk do Byrne; (00:25:26) Musas e cenas históricas de sexo (ou afins) nos quadrinhos: Hank Pym e Vespa/Angela e Spawn/ Superman e Big Barda/Kitty Pride e Colossus e outros; (00:40:14) Garth Ennis e suas HQs sexualmente polêmicas (sim, The Boys e Crossed); (00:51:18) Sexo: gratuidade ou não? (00:55:07) Indicações de quadrinhos com temática sexual; (01:01:24) Sexualidade hétero e homossexual nos quadrinhos Japoneses; (01:05:51) Batman e Robin na Feira da Fruta; musos nos quadrinhos e casais homossexuais; (01:14:36) Fechamento e considerações finais; (01:15:55) Apêndice: foda é... (01:18:03) Erramos, é foda. (01:22:38) Não gostou? Escuta essa! TRILHA SONORA (músicas sobre SEXOOO!): (0:00:00) Bobby Darin - Splish Splash (00:03:27) Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire (00:08:41) Madonna - Erotica (00:13:36) George Michael - I Want Your Sex (Stereo Version) (00:18:21) Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back (00:22:20) The Adjustment Bureau 15- Fever (Adam Freeland Extended Remix) (00:29:35) James Brown - Sexmachine (00:34:52) Scissor Sisters - Sex and Violence (00:39:03) The Vaccines - Post Break-Up Sex (00:41:58) Deadpool - Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines Parody (00:46:58) Genival Lacerda - Severina Xique-Xique (00:50:12) Leonardo - Água de Côco (00:53:31) Tati Quebra Barraco - Fogão Dako (00:55:22) Rita Cadillac - É Bom para o Moral (00:58:44) Genival Lacerda - Tico Mia Eletronic Mix (01:00:36) Aviões do Forró - Lapada na Rachada (01:03:57) Ultraje a Rigor - Sexo (01:08:34) Grupo Capote e Odair Cabeça de Poeta - Feira da Fruta (01:11:02) Ultraje a Rigor - Sexo (Reprise) (01:15:39) Genival Lacerda - Tico Mia (Versão Clássica) (01:18:38) Rita Cadillac - É Bom para o Moral (Reprise) (01:22:00) Grupo Capote e Odair Cabeça de Poeta - Feira da Fruta (Reprise) LINKS: Orgia Disney: http://www.ep.tc/realist/74/12.html Edição de Sexo dos X-Men: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/19/comic-book-easter-eggs-new-sex-men-118-edition/ Blurred Lines por Deadpool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06JvRsVZbpo Inspiração para a Druuna, de Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri (a modelo Ana Lima, na Playboy de 1989) NÃO RECOMENDÁVEL VER NO TRABALHO (NSFW): http://doubelieveinthehereafter.blogspot.com.br/2011/09/ana-lima-playboy-89-and-inspiration-for.html?zx=54448b52f7de4844 "Boy’s Love – Sem preconceito, sem limites" - Coletâneas - Guia Para Submissão de Contos: http://blyme-yaoi.com/main/2015/02/19/boys-love-sem-preconceito-sem-limites-coletanea-guia-para-submissao-de-contos/

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast - Strike! How the West Coast strike affects your comic shipments and more, Diagram for Delinquents, Savage Dragon #202, and Legendary Star-Lord #9 go under the microscope. Plus, your normal assortment of Cat Grant, Jason Momoa, and SDCC news… Get involved with the Major Spoilers Podcast Network LINK NEWS Colista Flockhart cast as Cat Grant in Supergirl series LINK First picture of Jason Momoa as Aquaman appears LINK REVIEWS STEPHEN Diagram for Delinquents (Movie) In 1950, America was in a state of panic; many felt that juvenile delinquency was destroying the very fabric of society. In 1954, psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham wrote a scathing indictment of comic books called Seduction of the Innocent. Its central premise was that comics were the leading contributing factor to juvenile delinquency. (At the time, 90% of all children were reading comic books.) That same year, Dr. Wertham testified at special hearings on comic books at the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the United States. Comic books were on trial! Diagram for Delinquents captures the zeitgeist of late 1940s / early 1950s America and investigates how the funny books found themselves on the bonfire. Using expert interviews and never-seen-before historical photographs and films, Diagram goes further than any documentary to explore and understand the controversial figure at the center of this American tale: Fredric Wertham. The DVD (as well as a digital download version) is now available for purchase at the Sequart Store. [rating:3.5/5] MATTHEW Savage Dragon #202 Story By: Erik Larsen Art By: Erik Larsen Cover By: Erik Larsen Price: $3.99 Stripped of his lightning powers, Malcolm Dragon finds that he can no longer rely on the one thing that kept him alive! Now he faces his most fearsome challenge yet—at a time when he’s at his most vulnerable. Malcolm Dragon fights the Deadly Damsels of the Vicious Circle! Raptor! Vein! Samurai! Insect! Tigress! Volcanic! Climax! Double-Paige! [rating:2.5/5] ZACH Legendary Star-Lord #9 Written by Sam Humphries Art by Paco Medina Cover Price: $3.99 BLACK VORTEX PART 3 With a schism forming within the assembled heroes, the youngest among them face the temptation of immeasurable power. Sometimes those with great power shirk their responsibility to use it for good, though. And with Knife and his new business partner looking to take back the Black Vortex, the group may have left themselves defenseless. [rating:3/5] Major Spoilers Poll of the Week DISCUSSION: James Thatcher breaks down the situation with the west coast strike and how it my delay your comics, and related merchandise, the Matthew, Stephen, and Zach briefly discuss the Power Rangers fan film. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. The Major Spoilers Store is located at majorspoilers.bigcartel.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast - Strike! How the West Coast strike affects your comic shipments and more, Diagram for Delinquents, Savage Dragon #202, and Legendary Star-Lord #9 go under the microscope. Plus, your normal assortment of Cat Grant, Jason Momoa, and SDCC news… Get involved with the Major Spoilers Podcast Network LINK NEWS Colista Flockhart cast as Cat Grant in Supergirl series LINK First picture of Jason Momoa as Aquaman appears LINK REVIEWS STEPHEN Diagram for Delinquents (Movie) In 1950, America was in a state of panic; many felt that juvenile delinquency was destroying the very fabric of society. In 1954, psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham wrote a scathing indictment of comic books called Seduction of the Innocent. Its central premise was that comics were the leading contributing factor to juvenile delinquency. (At the time, 90% of all children were reading comic books.) That same year, Dr. Wertham testified at special hearings on comic books at the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the United States. Comic books were on trial! Diagram for Delinquents captures the zeitgeist of late 1940s / early 1950s America and investigates how the funny books found themselves on the bonfire. Using expert interviews and never-seen-before historical photographs and films, Diagram goes further than any documentary to explore and understand the controversial figure at the center of this American tale: Fredric Wertham. The DVD (as well as a digital download version) is now available for purchase at the Sequart Store. [rating:3.5/5] MATTHEW Savage Dragon #202 Story By: Erik Larsen Art By: Erik Larsen Cover By: Erik Larsen Price: $3.99 Stripped of his lightning powers, Malcolm Dragon finds that he can no longer rely on the one thing that kept him alive! Now he faces his most fearsome challenge yet—at a time when he’s at his most vulnerable. Malcolm Dragon fights the Deadly Damsels of the Vicious Circle! Raptor! Vein! Samurai! Insect! Tigress! Volcanic! Climax! Double-Paige! [rating:2.5/5] ZACH Legendary Star-Lord #9 Written by Sam Humphries Art by Paco Medina Cover Price: $3.99 BLACK VORTEX PART 3 With a schism forming within the assembled heroes, the youngest among them face the temptation of immeasurable power. Sometimes those with great power shirk their responsibility to use it for good, though. And with Knife and his new business partner looking to take back the Black Vortex, the group may have left themselves defenseless. [rating:3/5] Major Spoilers Poll of the Week DISCUSSION: James Thatcher breaks down the situation with the west coast strike and how it my delay your comics, and related merchandise, the Matthew, Stephen, and Zach briefly discuss the Power Rangers fan film. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. The Major Spoilers Store is located at majorspoilers.bigcartel.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930's: “SKYSCRAPER SLAYER,” “BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB” read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again—and enthrall the nation. The young man who committed the murders would come to be known in the annals of American crime as the Mad Sculptor.The charismatic perpetrator, Robert Irwin, was a brilliant young sculptor who had studied with some of the masters of the era. But with his genius also came a deeply disturbed psyche; Irwin was obsessed with sexual self-mutilation and was frequently overcome by outbursts of violent rage. Irwin’s primary victim, Veronica Gedeon, was a figure from the world of pulp fantasy—a stunning photographer's model whose scandalous seminude pinups would titillate the public for weeks after her death. Irwin’s defense attorney, Samuel Leibowitz, was a courtroom celebrity with an unmatched record of acquittals and clients ranging from Al Capone to the Scottsboro Boys. And Dr. Fredric Wertham, psychiatrist and forensic scientist, befriended Irwin years before the murders and had predicted them in a public lecture months before the crime. Based on extensive research and archival records, The Mad Sculptor recounts the chilling story of the Easter Sunday murders—a case that sparked a nationwide manhunt and endures as one of the most engrossing American crime dramas of the twentieth century. The book evokes the faded glory of post-depression New York and the singular madness of a brilliant mind turned against itself. THE MAD SCULPTOR-The Maniac, The Model and the Murder that Shook the Nation-Harold Schechter

(Mariah) For decades, comic book fans across the globe have reviled Dr. Fredric Wertham as the man who single-handedly brought down the "Golden Age" of comics.  But is he truly the Lex Luthor he's been made out to be? Today's podcast takes a deeper look at one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century.

In 1954, the United States Senate held subcommittee hearings on the corrupting influence of comic books on the nation's youth. Testifying against the comic book industry was one Fredric Wertham, M.D. Wertham's testimony was also a promotion of his book, Seduction of the Innocent, an account of Wertham's experience and findings working with juvenile delinquents (who may or may not have been comic book readers). On the 60th anniversary of Wertham's testimony, we take a look back at Wertham's book and the effects of the Senate Hearings on juvenile delinquency, including the rise of the Comic Book Code and the fall and rebirth of the comic book industry.

Author Fred Van Lente (Action Philosophers, Conan, Amazing Spider-Man, Archer & Armstrong) discusses Fredric Wertham, Juvenile Delinquency, and the birth of the Comics Code Authority. The CBLDF Podcast is part of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's ongoing education program, made possible in part with a donation from The Gaiman Foundation, and member support. More information can be found at cbldf.org

Kluge Fellow Chris Bishop discusses Fredric Wertham and the anti-comics campaign of the 1950s. For transcript, captions and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6132

This week the Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics are excited to have as their guest creator extraordinaire, Matt Fraction. They talk with Matt specifically about his new series through Image Comics, Satellite Sam (with Howard Chaykin on art) and Sex Criminals (with Chip Zdarsky), but they also take the opportunity to discuss other works of his, such as the current Hawkeye series, his Casanova comics, and graphic novels such as The Five Fists of Science. Perhaps one of the most enlightening moments of the interview concerns issue #2 of Satellite Sam, where Matt points out that you can indeed letter the sound of “whiskey dick.” But comics aren't all that the guys discuss. Andy, Derek, and Matt also spend a lot of time talking about, ShitMyHowardSays, underrated works from Stanley Kubrick, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fredric Wertham, and Matt Helm movies! It's a veritable smorgasbord of pop cultural fun! However, Andy comes away from the experience a changed man, wondering if his love of everything Dean Martin has all been for naught. “Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.”

In this episode we discuss Amy taking a class in Gender through comic books, Fredric Wertham, Using comics as teaching tools and Walking Dead season 3. Image comics Witch Doctor: Mal Practice 1-6 by Brandon Seifert and illustrated by Lukas Ketner and Marvel comics Avengers Assemble 7-9 by Kelly Sue Deconnick and illustrated by Stefano Caselli. http://www.witchdoctorcomic.com/ http://kellysue.com/ You can leave us feedback or send us questions at rookieandthegeek@gmail.com Follow us on twitter @rookie_geek Also follow The Rookie and the Geek facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheRookieAndTheGeek Also leave us an itunes review

This week on the show: Ollie moves to the Great Northwest, we get our first look at Earth-2, Ed Brubaker terrifies, while Rodrigo dissevers Crime Does Not Pay. There's Star Wars and Matthew, all in this week's issue of the Major Spoilers Podcast. NEWS Earth-2 news and reactions LINK REVIEWS Stephen FATALE #3 Writer: Ed Brubaker Artist: Sean Phillips What will Detective Walt Booker sacrifice, to what gods? And is he looking for redemption or revenge? In part three of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' new horror/noir masterpiece, the threads of the first arc twist together... into a noose around the neck of a corrupt cop in late '50s San Francisco. [rating:5/5] Rodrigo CRIME DOES NOT PAY - Trade paperback Uncut and uncensored, the infamous precode Crime Does Not Pay comics are finally collected into a series of archival hardcovers! With brutal, realistic tales focusing on vile criminals, Crime Does Not Pay was one of the most popular comics of the 1940s. The series was a favorite target of Dr. Fredric Wertham and other censors and is partially responsible for the creation of the stifling Comics Code Authority. Now revered and mythic, this collection of the first four hard-to-find Crime Does Not Paycomics features a fine roster of Golden Age creators and a new introduction by Matt Fraction (Iron Man, Casanova [rating:4/5] Matthew Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #7
 Still seeking normalcy in the midst of zompire-stricken San Francisco, Buffy contemplates a life-changing decision the likes of which few Slayers have ever faced. Meanwhile Spike rushes to the aid of Detective Dowling, who’s in over his head with his recent investigation into the undead bloodsuckers plaguing the city. [rating:4/5] Major Spoilers Poll of the Week This week, it’s time to put your reputation on the line and profess your love for your favorite Star Wars movie. [poll id="222"] LINK Discussion: Longbow Hunters In this graphic tale of introspection, Green Arrow is repositioned as a realistic and relatable character who experiences and acts on true emotions. After moving to Seattle on his fortieth birthday with his girlfriend, the Black Canary, the Green Arrow begins to look back at his life and the decisions that he’s made. But before the two heroes can settle in, they are drawn into a web of grisly murders, trafficked drugs and unspeakable violence. Joined by the mysterious female Yakuza archer Shado, the Emerald Archer makes a monumental split second-decision as he takes a life to save the life of the Black Canary. Intense and authentic, THE GREEN ARROW: THE LONGBOW HUNTERS is an amazing exploration into the character of Green Arrow Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This week on the show: Ollie moves to the Great Northwest, we get our first look at Earth-2, Ed Brubaker terrifies, while Rodrigo dissevers Crime Does Not Pay. There's Star Wars and Matthew, all in this week's issue of the Major Spoilers Podcast. NEWS Earth-2 news and reactions LINK REVIEWS Stephen FATALE #3 Writer: Ed Brubaker Artist: Sean Phillips What will Detective Walt Booker sacrifice, to what gods? And is he looking for redemption or revenge? In part three of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' new horror/noir masterpiece, the threads of the first arc twist together... into a noose around the neck of a corrupt cop in late '50s San Francisco. [rating:5/5] Rodrigo CRIME DOES NOT PAY - Trade paperback Uncut and uncensored, the infamous precode Crime Does Not Pay comics are finally collected into a series of archival hardcovers! With brutal, realistic tales focusing on vile criminals, Crime Does Not Pay was one of the most popular comics of the 1940s. The series was a favorite target of Dr. Fredric Wertham and other censors and is partially responsible for the creation of the stifling Comics Code Authority. Now revered and mythic, this collection of the first four hard-to-find Crime Does Not Paycomics features a fine roster of Golden Age creators and a new introduction by Matt Fraction (Iron Man, Casanova [rating:4/5] Matthew Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #7
Still seeking normalcy in the midst of zompire-stricken San Francisco, Buffy contemplates a life-changing decision the likes of which few Slayers have ever faced. Meanwhile Spike rushes to the aid of Detective Dowling, who’s in over his head with his recent investigation into the undead bloodsuckers plaguing the city. [rating:4/5] Major Spoilers Poll of the Week This week, it’s time to put your reputation on the line and profess your love for your favorite Star Wars movie. [poll id="222"] LINK Discussion: Longbow Hunters In this graphic tale of introspection, Green Arrow is repositioned as a realistic and relatable character who experiences and acts on true emotions. After moving to Seattle on his fortieth birthday with his girlfriend, the Black Canary, the Green Arrow begins to look back at his life and the decisions that he’s made. But before the two heroes can settle in, they are drawn into a web of grisly murders, trafficked drugs and unspeakable violence. Joined by the mysterious female Yakuza archer Shado, the Emerald Archer makes a monumental split second-decision as he takes a life to save the life of the Black Canary. Intense and authentic, THE GREEN ARROW: THE LONGBOW HUNTERS is an amazing exploration into the character of Green Arrow Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.