#Taste of seduction code code
The Code symbol subsequently appeared on approved comic books, curtailing the crime and horror genre. The industry formed a new trade association and formulated a new Code to self-censor content. In 1954, the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency conducted hearings on comic books and warned the industry that if self-regulation did not prove to be effective, “other ways and means” would be found to protect children. During the next few years many states debated, but did not adopt, bills to ban or regulate comic books, in part because of a 1948 Supreme Court decision that overturned a state statute banning the sale or distribution of crime literature. Although the industry’s trade organization devised a Code that year to regulate content, only one-third of the publishers subscribed to it. In 1948, psychologist Fredric Wertham advocated the prohibition of comic books to children under the age of 16, claiming that all of the delinquent children he studied had read them. Anxiety over comic books grew as the pulp fiction crime and horror genre developed at the end of World War II. Religious leaders, civic groups, educators, the press, and government officials have voiced concern since the 19th century over supposed deleterious effects on children of popular culture, from dime novels and motion pictures to comic books, and television. “Good Shall Triumph over Evil”: The Comic Book Code of 1954
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