We have Wertham to thank for all of the fan fiction showing a gay relationship between Batman and his Boy Wonder.
I believe that we also have Wertham to “thank” for Albert Gore Junior getting the PMRC congressional hearings.
Albert Gore Junior needed national attention to make a stab at the White House in 1988.
Albert Gore Senior was still alive and probably gave his son some advice.
Way back when Daddy was a Senator, he missed his own “deserved” shot at a Presidential ticket when his fellow Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver made headlines with congressional hearings into juvenile delinquency. Kefauver got the VP nod.
A portion of this investigation was given over to hearings of improper content in comic books; hearings which led to the creation of the Comic Book Code Authority and the end of “EC Comics” (code was written to prohibit specific words like WEIRD from EC Comic titles).
Flash forward another 20 years from the PMRC hearings and Albert Gore Jr. and his wife and his toking dwi driving son Albert Gore III couldn’t give a damn about pimps and hoes and death rock. They have a new global agenda scare.
The man is a PHONY.