

History(17.comics book)
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0 c, Q- [: O0 J% ^: X1 [ Now let’s focus焦点, 焦距; 中心, 中央on comics in the 1950s. Early in the decade十年; 十sales were down. So publishers出版者, 发行人 started looking for some new angle to get their readers interested again. They found what they were looking for with horror惊骇; 惨事; 恐怖comics. Stories about ghosts demons魔鬼; 极残忍的人, that were often graphically生动地violent猛烈的, 暴力引起的, 激烈的.
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" |3 q4 L- i& f& @0 q8 Y Before long, most of the major publishers 出版者, 发行人were printing 印刷, 印花, 印刷术horror comics---but it all came to an end a few years later. You see, there was a psychologist心理学家 named Frederic Wertham who claimed that comic books---the horror books in particular---were a bad influence影响; 改变on children and turned them into juvenile 少年的delinquents违法者,行为出格的人(尤指年轻人). Wertham even wrote a book called Seduction引诱;诱惑力 of the Innocent幼稚的人,无经验者 that showed specific scenes from comics that he thought were a particularly bad influence on kids.
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Wertham wasn`t the only one down on comic. The United States Senate上议院;某些大学评论会;理事会Subcommittee小组委员会on Juvenile Delinquency also released a report very critical of comics. The result of all this fuss<n.>焦虑,操心;过分关怀 was the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1955.; n' O0 g, d0 m) {$ J; d, { h; S
( H& U7 T4 v3 }7 y0 h9 s% } This is a self-censoring审查 body created by the publishers. Essentially实质上; 本来, for a comic book to be approved by the code, it had to be free of the blood and gore凝固的血 that was usually depicted描述; 描写in most horror comics, and evil恶行 could never triumph战胜 over good. / H5 T5 m/ e; ` s8 d
7 p+ M; I" p0 ]2 t8 ? Children had to be shown that crime犯罪, 罪恶, 罪行did not pay. Well, if comic sales were bad in 1950, things got even worse in 1955. Many small publishers actually went out of business. But the industry工业, 产业, 企业 rebounded反弹,弹回 by introducing a new lineup阵容 of superheroes 超级英雄, characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic 奇妙的, 空想的, 稀奇的Four. Now I`ve brought with me today some comic books from this era时代;历史时期to pass around. They`re from my own personal collection, so please be extra careful when handling触摸,拿;搬动them." ^1 I. Z0 s: o* y
. i2 l/ a2 c A( Q' E+ D0 j! R2 u[ 本帖最后由 达达摩摩 于 2008-6-20 15:51 编辑 ]