Fredric wertham biography samples
Fredric Wertham was a German–American psychiatrist and author....
() German-born US psychiatrist and author whose name was legally changed from Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer inThe code carefully explained what could and could not be written into or drawn into the pages of the comics. Violence and sex were written out. Certain words like "weird, horror, terror" and "crime" were restricted.
Even slang terms were controlled and attacks on religion were strictly forbidden.
This was just too much for most publishers to deal with.
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Many publishers closed their doors for good. Atlas Comics (now called Marvel) almost folded. DC scaled back the number of titles they published and famed publishers like EC just barely stayed alive.
EC had been a particular target of many during this period.
Inarguably filled with graphic gore, sex, violent acts, sadism and suggestive story lines, even after the adoption of the code EC found itself unable to get their books distributed. EC publisher Bill Gaines had told many stories of unsold comics being returned from the distributors without their bundles being