"Mr. Chairman, I am just a doctor. I can’t tell what the remedy is. I can only say that in my opin-ion this is a public-health problem. I think it ought to be possible to determine once and for all what is in these comic books and I think it ought to be possible to keep the children under 15 from seeing them displayed to them and preventing these being sold directly to children. In other words, I think something should be done to see that the children can’t get them. You see, if a father wants to go to a store and says, “I have a little boy of seven. He doesn’t know how to rape a girl; he doesn’t know how to rob a store. Please sell me one of the comic books,” let the man sell him one, but I don’t think the boy should be able to go see this rape on the cover and buy the comic book. I think from the public-health point of view something might be done now, Mr. Chairman…"
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Fredric Wertham, testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquen-cy, (April 22, 1954)
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