Confidential File: Horror Comics

Name: Confidential File: Horror Comics
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie, Crime
Released: 1955-10-09
Duration: 25 min
Cast: Estes Kefauver, Paul Coates

Seduction Of The Innocent

0.0 (0)1955-10-0925m

DocumentaryTV MovieCrime

Overview

In 1954 the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency conducted an investigation into how the comic book industry was supposedly contributing to the moral decay of a nation's youth. The investigations were spurred on by a number of articles that blamed comics for the rise in juvenile delinquency in post-war America. Chief among the critics was Doctor Frederic Wertham, whose book, "Seduction of The Innocent" has been blamed for nearly single-handedly crippling the entire comics industry. "Confidential File" was aired in 1955, after the senate hearings and the formation of the Comics Code, but it serves as a perfect example of how the media reacted to the comic book industry, and sought a scape goat by blaming the comic book publications for society's own lack of responsibility in raising its children.