Comics: Threat Or Menace?
April, 1995
Prompted by the prosecution of cartoonist Mike Diana in Florida, one of our Contributing Editors recalls the last time our country was imperiled by comic books.I'm a little hazy now, but I think it was around 1953 when the youth of America, corrupted by a new line of comic books, began disemboweling people and cutting off their heads. The problem did not reach serious proportions in my community, where everyone knew one another and the discovery of a decapitated corpse guaranteed a flurry of war...
