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Seduction of the Innocent. By Fredric Wertham. New York & Toronto: Reinhart, 1954. 400pp[?].
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- Publisher's Note ... v
- Acknowledgments ... vii
- "Such Trivia as Comic Books": Introducing the Subject ... 1
- "You Always Have to Slug 'Em": What Are Crime Comic Books? ... 17
- The Road to the Child: Methods of Examination ... 54
- The Wrong Twist: The Effects of Comic Books on the Child ... 83
- Retooling for Illiteracy: The Influence of Comic Books on Reading ... 119
- Design for Delinquency: The Contribution of Crime Comic Books to Juvenile Delinquency ... 147
- "I Want to be a Sex Maniac!": Comic Books and the Psychosexual Development of Children ... 173
- "Bumps and Bulges": Advertising in Comic Books ... 195
- The Experts for the Defense: The Scientiic Promotion of Comic Books ... 251
- The Upas Tree: Making and Makers of Comic Books ... 251
- Murder in Dawson Creek: The Comic Books Abroad ... 273
- The Devil's Allies: The Struggle Against the Comic-Book Industry ... 295
- Homicade at Home: Television and the Child ... 353
- The Triumph of Dr. Payn: Comic Books Today and the Future ... 385
- Bibliographical Note ... 399
Reviews
Barker, Martin. A Haunt of Fears. London: Pluto Press, 1984. Rpt. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. [See especially chapter six, "Fredric Wertham's Nightmare"]
Beaty, Bart. Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. [See especially Chapter Four, "Wertham and the Critique of Comic Books"]
Harvey, R.C. "Comicopia: Wasn't Wertham Right After All?" [Re-evaluation of Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent, with reference to Nyberg, Seal of Approval.] Comics Journal 223 (May 2000): 105-09.
Harvey, R.C. "Wertham Revisited: Seduction in the Eighties." Comics Journal 106 (March 1986): 72-90, 95.
Kyle, Richard. "Graphic Story World" [essay on Seduction of the Innocent]." Graphic Story Magazine 11 (Summer 1970): 46-7.
Nyberg, Amy Kiste. Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. See especially chapter four, "Fredric Wertham and the Comics Crusade."
Scholz, Carter. "Seducing the Innocent." [essay on Wetham's works.] Comics Journal 80 (March 1983): 43-45, 47, 49-50, 52-53.
On-Line ResourcesCoville, Jamie. Seduction of the Innocents and the Attack on Comic Books: The Comic Book Villain, Dr. Fredrick Wertham, M.D.
Darius, Julian. The End of Seduction, a Tragedy in Five Acts. Sequential Culture #40, 21 October 2005 through Sequential Culture #48, 16 December 2005.
Pyle, Christian L. Seduction of the Innocent. St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.
SeductionOfTheInnocent.org: "A site dedicated to the comics censorship movement of the 1940's and 1950's, Seduction of the Innocent , and the works of Dr. Fredric Wertham." Includes a helpful list of comic books referenced in SOTI.
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