>>94557959This. The move that killed the comics industry was the move away from variety and toward capeshit as the dominant story type. If Wertham's bullshit moral panic and the DC/Archie combo hadn't destroyed damn near the rest of the industry, we might not be in the situation we are in today.
Yes, there are things to be said about distribution and whatnot. But it ultimately boils down to the idea that comics gained a reputation in the US as childish garbage, and that was the result of Wertham's moral panicking and the CCA's subsequent annihilation of variety within the medium.
