The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

Edgar Hoover and most notably Dr. Fredric Wertham until Congressional hearings led to the mid-1950s self-censorship and rapid shrinkage of the comics industry.

" (These charges were echoed during this period by other public figures like Sterling North J. He worked for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941. In a 1948 radio broadcast Brown attacked comic books as "the marijuana of the nursery; the bane of the bassinet; the horror of the house; the curse of the kids; and a threat to the future.