The various efforts to ban comics over the decades was a hot topic at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.

And so, our nation’s youth was just a dime’s purchase away from juvenile delinquency, mental illness and much, much worse. Thus goes the scapegoating just as it always has.īack in the early 1950s, comic books were the Grand Theft Auto of the day, a “fall guy” along with rock ‘n’ roll for a nation looking for simplistic explanations for complex societal problems. We’d all be so much better if only they didn’t have access to those video games and that nasty music and those awful movies and blah blah blah. Kids these days, with their violence and gunplay and perverse sex.