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Well, anybody who’s been around for awhile
recognizes this mating call of, “There’s too much
violence in so and so. Let’s get it off the air and
out of the hair of the kids so it won’t be
destroying our families, and so on.” You hear this
all the time. I forget the name of the guy, but there
was a chap back in the ’40s who was brought to
testify in front of congress a couple of times over
the evils and the abject dangers posed to our
families and our societies of all the violence going
on in comic books. And that was just midstream. In
the 19th century there were people railing about
violence in the dime novels and cheap fiction and
pulp romances, and so on. This is going to rot the