Fredric Wertham
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(March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981)
Fredric Wertham was a was a German–American psychiatrist and author. For our purposes he is best known as the author of Seduction of the Innocent (1954), 'which asserted that comic books caused youth to become delinquents' Wikipedia, and more significantly The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communication (1973), likely the first academic book-length study of fanzines. He was later a correspondent of Donn Brazier's Title.
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