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How Comics Almost Died 70 Years Ago: Wonder Woman 'Torturing Men,' Batman's 'Homoerotic Tendencies,' and More Misguided Theories

In the spring of 1954, the book Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Fredric Wertham and a Senate investigation into juvenile delinquency led to an anti-comics scare, the effects of which are still felt today.

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David Hajdu is the music critic of The Nation. Hadju is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written on the arts for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. As an editor and magazine writer, Hajdu has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award several times, and his articles and essays have been selected for a number of anthologies, including Best Music Writing, Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times Arts & Culture Reader, and Best American Comics Writing. Hadju is the award-winning author of four books: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn; Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña; The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America; and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, C