Joel Christian Gill

They were sending comics.

And then when they came back after reading comics and learning and loving comics, it's like crime comics and all these different types of comics.

And Archie just fits a vibe for a specific type of person.

How should we talk about the Comics Code?

It's a moral panic in line with, do y'all remember when D&D was causing demons to kill people in the 80s, right?

It's like, it's just like that.

It's hip hop is a moral panic.

There's all these moral panics.

And after World War II, like I was saying, that soldiers come back and they wanna read comics now.

Everybody's into comics, right?

They make crime comics.

They make psychological thrillers.

They make detective novels.

Batman actually started as a detective story.

Like all of these things are coming out for the soldiers who were used to reading comics, right?

Comic books are an important contributing factor in many cases of juvenile delinquency.

Fred Wertham was basically a pseudoscientist.

He was actually a civil rights activist as well.

And he thought that this was going to help black children in Harlem.

Most of his studies were done with black children in Harlem.