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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2016
Tuesday Jun 21, 2016
The third episode of History Honeys brings Grant to the hot seat to talk about The Comics Code Authority; its beginnings, its effects, and its legacy. If it seems like Alaina doesn't say much, it's because she was too busy trying to keep her composure in the face of the all-too familiar story of misplaced outrage and artistic repression. She made some incredible faces, though. Is scapegoating and censorship the path of least resistance? Can history remember anyone for more than one thing? How long of a shadow can one moment cast?
Recommendations: Saga, I Hate Fairyland, Archie, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Starchie (and all of Will Elder and Wally Wood's work on MAD), The Lee/Kirby run on Fantastic Four (issues 1-102), Figment from the Disney Kingdoms line of books inspired by theme park attractions, and many other books we didn't mention in the recording.
An article about Wertham's manipulation of facts to fit his argument: https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/204890
Logo by Marah
Music by Thylacinus
Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus
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My daughter was like you, Alaina. She didn't want t learn to read, but her thing was video games. I wouldn't sit and read the narrative to her so she had to learn to read. My favorite moral panic was the satanic ritual abuse of the 80s. I lived through that nonsense.
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