Kilgore, the points about people bad-mouthing the industry in the 1940s are often forgotten by most. Call it "the smoking gun"-- all the anti-comics hysteria of the 1950's DID NOT start overnight. And according to an article I read in the last couple years (it was either COMIC BOOK ARTIST or ALTER EGO) the movie & book industries were JEALOUS of comics' high sales figures, and determined to do whatever they could to ELIMINATE the competition. (Talk about UN-AMERICAN!!!!!) Much of the crapola spewed out by Frederic Wertham was PUT into his hands by people connected with big corporations who would benefit from the destruction of comic-books as an industry! (Put another way-- very little happens "by accident".)
