Long before television and video games, or before comic books and D&D, novels were the new and scary form of entertainment. They were accused of corrupting the youth, of planting dangerous ideas into the heads of housewives, and distracting everyone from more serious, important books.
1945: The Press: Are Comics Fascist? - TIMEtrello1945
βThe U.S.βmoppets and moppet-minded grownupsβbuys some 25,000,000 comic books each month. Are they good for children? Those who say yes include Dr. Lauretta Bender, psychiatrist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and an adviser to the editors of Superman. Her opinion: "The comics may be said to offer the same type of mental catharsis to their readers that Aristotle claimed was an attribute of the drama.β
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