Knitting based superheroes and Seduction of the Innocents
Over the past seven decades, there have been lots of gimmick superhero comic books, and most of them are pretty odd. But I don't think there's ever been a superhero comic book based around knitting.
Knitting... I still can't get over it.
And, on a somewhat related topic, STWALLSKULL blog compiled the list of all the comic books mentioned in Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent. For those who don't know much about the history of American comic books, Wertham was a child psychologist who believed that then-contemporary comic books were encouraging juvenile delinquency and general misbehavior. His book inspired a series of congressional hearings that ultimately prompted comic book publishers to adopt the Comic Book Code - a committee made up of representatives of all publishers that would check all comics before they were published and make sure they didn't contain anything immoral or generally upsetting. Along other things, the code outlawed suggestive drawings, any displays of disrespect for authority, anything that disrespected the church and the family and so much more. On the bright side, it forbade any depiction of ethnic and racial prejudice (or, at least, any overt ethnic and racial prejudice), so I guess it was good for something. This resulted in a new wave of rather bland comics that would eventually go down in history as the first stage of the Silver Age of Comics.
In any case, if you want to see what all the fuss was about, click here.
Knitting... I still can't get over it.
And, on a somewhat related topic, STWALLSKULL blog compiled the list of all the comic books mentioned in Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent. For those who don't know much about the history of American comic books, Wertham was a child psychologist who believed that then-contemporary comic books were encouraging juvenile delinquency and general misbehavior. His book inspired a series of congressional hearings that ultimately prompted comic book publishers to adopt the Comic Book Code - a committee made up of representatives of all publishers that would check all comics before they were published and make sure they didn't contain anything immoral or generally upsetting. Along other things, the code outlawed suggestive drawings, any displays of disrespect for authority, anything that disrespected the church and the family and so much more. On the bright side, it forbade any depiction of ethnic and racial prejudice (or, at least, any overt ethnic and racial prejudice), so I guess it was good for something. This resulted in a new wave of rather bland comics that would eventually go down in history as the first stage of the Silver Age of Comics.
In any case, if you want to see what all the fuss was about, click here.