Papers of Comic-Book 'Villain' Open at Library

 

Papers of Comic-Book 'Villain' Open at Library
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:00:06 -0500

My colleague Erin Allen wrote the following for the Library’s in-house letter, The Gazette, and I thought it worth sharing with a wider audience: Among comic-book aficionados, psy­chiatrist Fredric Wertham (1895–1981) is considered as much of a villain as those he assailed in the crime and horror comics he criticized. However, Wer­tham was more than just [...]

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