Reason has a cool article up about EC Comics and the psychiatrist who did that whole witchhunt against comics. Ironically, the guy was an arch-socialist with Marxist leanings. A Marxist witch hunter?!

When psychiatrist Frederic Wertham began his crusade against comic books, EC was one of his targets. Wertham was a leftist influenced heavily by Frankfurt School Marxism and by Theodor Adorno in particular. Comics were the products of mechanistic, capitalist production, he argued, and could therefore affect children's minds mechanistically. Confusing anecdote with data, he argued that all of the juvenile delinquents he studied read comics, and that comics therefore were responsible for their delinquency. Horror comics, he felt, were especially insidious.

Wow, that's strange. Anyway, read it for the EC stuff.