We all know about the holocost, but after reading this book you will understand how the holocost came about.

The chapter "A Geranium in the Window" is one of the best available studies of the major role psychiatry played in the development and implementation of the genocide program of the Nazi's. For anyone interested in the real history of psychiatry and psychiatric research, this book would be very valuable.

This is very informative and contains a serious warning that every parent needs to read. It sheds light on the "seduction" of young minds by businesses through comic books for profit. Unfortunately, this problem still exists and has bleeded over to video games, movies, and just about anything else a young child can purchase for a few dollars. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend it.

This book is great to read but not for the reasons Mr. Wertham would like. In the 1950's, Wertham undertook a crusade to rid the world of comic books (yes, you read correctly) and chronicled his effort in this book. Wertham decided that comics (ALL comics) were destroyers of youth. To him, no comic book was benign. Superhero comics like Wonder Woman and Superman promoted white supremacy and homosexuality, Crime and Horror comics made kids into sadistic outlaws, etc. As a result of his book and efforts, comics were effectively neutered through the comics code. Granted some of the points Wertham made about the effects of graphic horror had on youngsters had merit, but most were far off the mark. This book is a must-read for anyone who loves comics and their history. It's also a great reference to find the most interesting comics of the 1950's.

Fredric Wertham illustrates and interesting (and laughable) perspective to the ideal of comic books from the perpective of a 1950's child pyschologist (that being Wertham himself). Wertham's absolutly skewed view of the secret and sudective world of comics brought the comics industry to its knees, when he published his atrosity that was meant to see the fall of the comic book industry only to see it grow and prosper after the repercussions of his book falter. The book represents the ludicurous veiws of a shallow man who wished to place the current childhood delinquincy of the times in relation to comics. Hilarious outtake on the perspective thinking of 1950's.

In Seal of Approval (The History of the Comics Code), Amy Kiste Nyberg takes the reader through a narrowly focused but essential part of the history of comic books and, therefore, part of the greater history of popular culture in general. Much of the basic story will be familiar from other histories of comic books but this author provides new insights into the foundation for the movement to censor comic books as well as providing a run down of the evolution of the comics code after the mid-fifites Senate hearings, an evolution very rarely discussed. The author also makes valuable use of sources little used by other authors such as the minutes of the Comics Magazine Association of America. All in all, a nice piece of research and a valuable contribution to the history of pop culture.

This is one brilliant book. She has taken a subject of much heated debate and passion among collectors and boiled it down to it's essence. I don't agree with everything she claims but it is thought-provoking nonetheless. If you collect comics and you want to gain a deeper understanding of how our hobby has been shpaed then buy this book.

This insightful and well-researched work carefully places the Comices Code Authority with in the context of American culture. Rather than taking the traditional view, that the code came a a result of the repressive attitudes of the 1950s and was the downfall of the industry, Amy Kiste Nyborg convincingly shows the Code to be a pioneering effort in industry self-regulation in response to public pressure -- a logical forerunner of motion picture ratings, recoard warning labels, TV advisories, and the V-chip. Parental and community outcry against commic books in the 1940s and 1950s virtually mirrors the "protect our kids from the Internet" efforts of 1998. The unexamined role of economic factors such as industry distribution patterns on the Code is examined here for the first time. The Comics code is shown to have made fundamental changes in how the comics industry has operated over time, and in SEAL OF APPROVAL, Amy Kiste Nyborg demonstrates that it is still very relevant today.