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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 01:49:42 2018 No.99218546 View Reply Original Report

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How different would comics be if nobody paid attention to this guy?

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:50:52 No.99218565 Report

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>>99218546
literally who?

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:52:28 No.99218593 Report

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We would still have Western and mystery comics and capeshit would have gone through it's edgy phase a lot more gradually and would be more adult in general.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:53:23 No.99218604 Report

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>>99218565
The guy who wrote this.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:53:39 No.99218609 Report

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>>99218565
Psychiatrist who claimed comic books were too violent and that was dangerous.

Literally just google image searched him.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:54:11 No.99218618 Report

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>>99218546
People would tell you comics would be better off and more adult, and would sell better and blahblahblah, truth is, Americans have always been retarded about reading

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:55:21 No.99218644 Report

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>>99218546
Then someone else would’ve said it.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:55:56 No.99218655 Report

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www google com

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:56:42 No.99218677 Report

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>>99218546
>Wertham also claimed Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian

Was he wrong?

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:56:49 No.99218680 Report

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>>99218546
Capeshit would be A genre among many. True crime, mysteries, horror, and westerns might still be around. Romance comics would still be around. Comics would be a stronger medium.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:59:28 No.99218722 Report

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We would never have had the Silver Age of Comics.

Many if not all of the non-violent science-fiction and surreal fantasy stories that made the Silver Age iconic were a direct result of the Comics Code and Wertham's crusading. Other non-violent genres, including romance and comedy books, were a result of the loss of horror, hard action, crime, and other books.

It should also be noted that the books of the Silver Age were a direct influence on the popular "Batman" television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 02:05:27 No.99218804 Report

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>>99218677
He was wrong in saying that was a negative thing.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 02:15:08 No.99218951 Report

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Not that different. If Wertham and his book didn't start the fire, someone else with credibility would've eventually. The real blame falls on publishers impulsively forming the CMAA and CCA to preempt gov't regulation and going full retard with it.

Wertham's only a scapegoat because he made the mistake of trying to address juvenile delinquency with faulty research. Even he didn't like CCA's arbitrary guidelines.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 02:21:54 No.99219057 Report

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>>99218565
Ah, the ignorant underage who gets his information from YouTube. If it's not part of a playlist, you can't be assed to spend 2 seconds looking for it on Google.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 02:44:43 No.99219384 Report

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>>99218546
He only got popular because there was already a backlash against comics. Wertham's book just provided concise talking points and a claim of authority.

I can see publishers doing what EC did with Mad and converting crime and horror comics to a magazine format.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 02:46:23 No.99219418 Report

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>>99218546
American comics becomes as diverse as Manga.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 02:49:31 No.99219495 Report

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Wertham wasn't the sole voice of anti-comic sentiments back in the day. He hollered loud as fuck about it, and it drew a mob to surround himself... but of all things there were plenty of church groups and advocates who hated *Superman* and decried him as being unchristian and heretical among other things. Plenty of parents and moral watchdogs hated the shit out of crime comics and horror stories and they wanted them gone. Children's book authors also hated comics for stealing their audiences away and even if Wertham never spoke up or was discredited or what have you someone would have taken his place.

*Maybe* there would be a small chance that without an "accredited" vocal opponent, the industry would have been able to better monitor themselves like with an equivalent of the films rating system instead of the bullshit censorship situation the industry found itself in.

Even if that happened, I'm not sure what would come about in terms of audiences. Eventually someone would make an "R-rated" comic that was a huge hit and slowly the medium would mature the way it's done in Japan and Europe, but this future would be probably unrecognizable from ours.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 03:04:07 No.99219744 Report

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>>99219495
Kind of like how jack thompson wasn't the ONLY voice of moral outrage against video games.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 03:05:25 No.99219773 Report

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>>99218565
Fuck off /tv/ cancer Jesus Christ.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 03:07:30 No.99219807 Report

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>>99219773
>what is the cartoon section of this board?

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 03:21:16 No.99220061 Report

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>>99219744
Only Wertham is basically Jack Thompson who knew how to work the crowd and public opinion and didn't actually take too many stupid steps apart from having an opinion that was all but objectively untrue. Wertham may as well have shot himself if he stuff scads of porn, physically, into some judge's mail box.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 03:24:42 No.99220131 Report

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>>99218546
They'd be as relevant as the pulp fiction they shared the discount section of newstands with.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 05:25:27 No.99222012 Report

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>>99218546
It'd be much closer to manga and eurocomics and likely would be much wider read.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Mar 2018 05:59:56 No.99222424 Report

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>>99220061
>Wertham may as well have shot himself if he stuff scads of porn, physically, into some judge's mail box.
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