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Bryan Vizzini explains the context in which the Comics Code Authority was created in 1954 Reminds me of John Springhall's "‘Horror Comic’ Panic: Campaigning against Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s" in *Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics* https://t
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A great book with a transhistorical take on that topic is John Springhall's *Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830–1996* From penny gaffs & penny dreadfuls to 1930s gangster films, later comics & violent films