5 Quotes by Fredric Wertham

Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.

For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.

Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.