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lil  ·  3312 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture

    How did our superheroes become super-villains in the eyes of the government, clergy, educators, and parents of the mid-20th Century?
If you were a baby boomer, born in the two decades after WW2, then likely you will remember having to read comic books secretly. My father would from time to time go on a comic-ripping rampage...so sad. The only comics we were allowed to openly read were Classics Illustrated. I still have a few, like this one:

    When and how did comic books become acceptable again, and eventually become valid teaching tools in universities and schools?
If anyone is auditing this course, I'd like to know the answer to that question.