Chris and Reggie's TOTAL PACKAGE - The Comics Code Authority
Episode description
Celebrating FIVE YEARS of Chris and Reggie with a compilation of our first "big" project together! If you've ever wanted to listen to our Comics Code Authority series... but found the Archives to be too daunting (which they are!), here is a one-stop shop for nearly eight-hours of post-war comics chatter.
If all you know about the CCA is "Frederic Wertham did it!", I invite you to give this a listen, because ol' Doc W. is only a itty bitty part of the package! We actually READ Seduction of the Innocent, went line-by-line through the 1954 Senate Subcommittee hearings on Juvenile Delinquency, deep-dive on its main architect, Senator Estes Kefauver, go through all permutations of the Code while it was still relevant, and end with something of an op-ed on the current post-Code comics landscape.
I hope you enjoy!
-- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Part 1: "Before the Comics Code" (00:39:39) Part 2: "Seduction of the Innocent" (02:23:04) Part 3: "The Kefauver Trials" (04:06:27) Part 4: "Life Under the Code" (05:35:40) Part 5: "Life After the Code" --Voicemail: 623-396-5375
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