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WERTHAM AND THE CRITIQUE OF COMIC BOOKS
By 1957, Fredric Wertham’s critique of comic books was well enough known that he was the specific target ofMad, a legendary American satire magazine. In his office, Wertham kept a framed copy of a mock article, “Baseball Is Ruining Our Children,” that appeared under the byline Frederick Werthless, M.D. (“Baseball” 1957). Alongside a dozen Wally Wood illustrations depicting leering, aggressive baseball players, the text of the article ridiculed psychological and monocausationist beliefs regarding juvenile delinquency by exaggerating the rhetoric of traditional critics of mass culture:
For many years, I worked closely with “juvenile delinquents.” Then my hair turned gray,
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