The Village Voice has an extensive profile Dr. Fredric Wertham, the German-born American psychiatrist who played an enormous role in a feverish morality campaign against comic books that eventually crippled the industry and killed jobs for lots of people.
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Howard Nostrand, Ray Bradbury, and EC horror comics
When Harvey Comics staff editor Sid Jacobson handed writer-artist Howard Nostrand a stack of EC horror comics in the early 1950s and told him, “Here, copy what these guys are doing,” Nostrand did a pretty good job of it.