Comics Bogeyman: A Look Back At 'Seduction of the Innocent'
April 19, 1954 is a date that has lived in infamy for comics fans.
That's the day psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, a book that changed the comics landscape for decades to come, was first published. Wertham's book led to a moral panic over the content of comic books that ultimately resulted in the founding of the Comics Code Authority and the eventual folding of one of the major publishers of the era, EC Comics.