"This is a book that every comics scholar should read and own. It is a thoroughly researched and contextualized look at one of one of comics' most maligned figures that simultaneously offers an interesting re-reading of the history of communication and media studies in the US. It is not going too far to describe the book as an apologia for Wertham – Beaty shows how his influence in the budding field of communications studies was curtailed and ultimately written out of textbooks, and presents a detailed and rigorous defense of Wertham's value and relevance."

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