Seduction of the Innocent

A senate sub committee on juvenile delinquency held a hearing about comic books. It led to an interesting conversation between the committee and william gaines, who was the publisher of easy comics. A senator st kefover wanted to use this as sort of his new platform for a catapulting to the next level in political startam. He went after gains by holding up a cover to one of the e c's books that had a severed head with a bloody axe next to it. Gaines just kind of stammered, and he said, well, i think it's in good taste for for horror comic. And they were really, eno rhetorically lame, and it made him