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Podcast: QAA Podcast
Episode: Trickle Down Episode 19: Graphic Corruption (Sample)
Description: 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...