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Despite the title, this isn’t exactly about virginity.  Wertham’s 1954 tract against comic books resulted in congressional investigations and ultimately the Comics Code Authority, one of the most absurd censorship organizations that has ever existed in the US.  The CCA banned whole genres, such as horror, as well as banning such morally dubious images as werewolves, vampires, ghouls, corrupt politicians, sympathetic or glamorous villains, villains who do not get caught and punished, cannibalism, rape, nudity, suggestive postures, lurid, unsavory, and gruesome images.  Oh, and sexual perversion….Wertham was one of the early critics of Wonder Woman’s bondage kink. Another subtext of the code was that the heroes had to be white.  This came out quickly in EC Comics’ story “Judgment Day”, which essentially ended their business, leaving only Mad Magazine. (via schundundschmutz, mudwerks)

Despite the title, this isn’t exactly about virginity.  Wertham’s 1954 tract against comic books resulted in congressional investigations and ultimately the Comics Code Authority, one of the most absurd censorship organizations that has ever existed in the US.  The CCA banned whole genres, such as horror, as well as banning such morally dubious images as werewolves, vampires, ghouls, corrupt politicians, sympathetic or glamorous villains, villains who do not get caught and punished, cannibalism, rape, nudity, suggestive postures, lurid, unsavory, and gruesome images.  Oh, and sexual perversion….Wertham was one of the early critics of Wonder Woman’s bondage kink.

Another subtext of the code was that the heroes had to be white.  This came out quickly in EC Comics’ story “Judgment Day”, which essentially ended their business, leaving only Mad Magazine.

(via schundundschmutz, mudwerks)

1 November 2011 • reblog: mudwerks • books 1950s comics censorship wonder woman