Most readers of this blog are familiar with Dr. Fredric Wertham
and his notorious book Seduction of the Innocent
, which basically attributed 1950s juvenile delinquency to the reading of comic books, specifically horror comics!But, did you know that Great Britain had a similar cultural phenomenon, known as The Gorbals Vampire, also blaming American horror comics?
Bleeding Cool, a site of such importance to all comics fanboys and fangirls (yes, that includes us) that it should be one of your PRIMARY bookmarks, has posted info on a new BBC documentary about this infamous (and little-known) period of British history!
Link, read, listen, and learn.
For those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it!
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(Louise)
series had proven to be a major success, so why fight it?
in almost 20 years, and the upcoming big budget movie we're proud to present our 
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by Ron Goulart, adapting the comics storylines into prose!