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By Mike Gordon April 19, 2006 - 22:37 Franklin, MA - Atlantis Studios announced today theJuly release of the next chapter in their successfuladventure series entitled Paula Peril: The Case of theHaunted Museum. "This is our 'Scooby Doo' issue, it has twoself-contained stories with ghost story scenarios",explains series creator James Watson, "This issue alsointroduces a new character, Veronica Vile, who will bean on-going part of the series. She is a fellowreporter who feels threatened by Paula's success, andwill stop at nothing to steal the headlines, even ifit means some dangerous cliffhanger situations!" Cover Art This action-packed series has been described asIndiana Jones meets Nancy Drew, with art by veteranSeppo Makinen (Sherlock Holmes), newcomer JavierSanchez Aranda, inker Rob Ewing (Kelly Belle), and afull color cover by Dave Hoover (Tarzan). Each issuefeatures the pulp-inspired adventures of a determinedyoung reporter who finds herself in the middle ofevery story she covers, be it ruthless gangsters orsupernatural mysteries.For more information on Atlantis Studios, including aspecial preview of Paula Peril artwork and characters,visit www.atlantisstudios.net/paulaperil.
But even with the silver screen featuring films sanitized for their protection, kids seemed less moral than ever. By the late '40s, reformers discovered a new culprit leading them down the road to ruin: comic books. Child psychiatrist Frederic Wertham was convinced that juvenile delinquency was due to the baneful influence of comics. Wertham, like many who support governmental restrictions on speech to alter children's behavior, treated kids as innocent, empty vessels waiting to be filled with any negative influence that came their way.
His main evidence was that delinquents read violent comic books. He condemned not just the brutality in crime comics and the gore in horror comics but also the general influence of superhero, science fiction, western, and even educational comic books. He argued in his book Seduction of the Innocent that Batman and Robin's lifestyle was "like a wish dream for two homosexuals living together," that Wonder Woman was a lesbian who frightened boys and created a "morbid ideal" for girls, and that "Superman undermines the authority and dignity of the ordinary man and woman."
Parents' groups organized boycotts and comic-book burnings. States and counties considered legislation against the new peril. The crowning glory of the crusade came in April 1954, when Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) called a Senate hearing on the issue. In an unwitting prologue to today's hearings on TV violence, a group of self-styled children's advocates laid out the case against the offensive material.
Wertham was the star witness for the prosecution. He claimed that comics glamorized evil and violence, even when good won in the end. Like many censors, he portrayed himself as a small voice, armed only with the truth, speaking out against a powerful industry. He stated, "I am not advocating censorship" and implied that, in fact, the comics industry was out to censor him.
Though no legislation came out of the hearings, the industry got the message. They adopted a stringent code of ethics and appointed juvenile delinquency expert Judge Charles F. Murphy as comic-book czar. Horror comics got the death penalty, and crime stories were put on probation. Any comic that didn't receive the Seal of Approval from the Comics Code Authority would not be displayed by wholesalers. (Gaines took his only remaining successful comic, Mad, and turned it into a slick-format magazine so it wouldn't be covered by the Code.)
Whether quasi-governmental restrictions similar to the ones foisted on movies, comics, and records will be imposed on TV programming remains to be seen. Canada, seen by many as a worthy model for health-care reform, may also play an inspirational role in proposals to overhaul TV shows. The Canadian equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, recently approved a "voluntary" production code put together by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, a private industry group threatened with possible government censorship.
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