{"id":676,"date":"2010-02-02T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2010\/02\/doctor-doctor\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:56:00","slug":"doctor-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/S2iCJfc0UrI\/AAAAAAAAA0c\/uxyqdoUzt8s\/s1600-h\/fredric_werthan.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/S2iCJfc0UrI\/AAAAAAAAA0c\/uxyqdoUzt8s\/s320\/fredric_werthan.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The real question is this: Are comic books good or are they not good? Now it all depends on what you want. If you want to raise a generation that is half storm-troopers and half cannon-fodder, with a dash of illiteracy, then comic books are good. In fact, they are perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Via Bill Kartalopolous, an <a href=\"http:\/\/tennesseebillsotr.com\/otr\/Author%20Meets%20The%20Critics\/The%20Author%20Meets%20The%20Critics%20480808%2029m54s%20The%20Comics,%20Very%20Funny.mp3\">audio file<\/a> of a pretty terrific old episode of <i>The Author Meets the Critics<\/i>, featuring a debate with the infamous Dr. Frederic Wertham.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Oh, and gee, I should mention that this is a different episode than the one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/random_comics_news_story_round_up010510\/\">Tom Spurgeon highlighted<\/a> the other day, which also featured Wertham, along with Al Capp.<\/p>\n<p>Because of my dereliction of duty, let me point you to an article I only recently discovered was available online, Robert Warshow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/viewarticle.cfm\/-em-the-study-of-man-em--paul--the-horror-comics--and-dr--wertham-1958\">famous essay on Wertham and EC<\/a>, in which he references the Capp\/Wertham episode in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The real question is this: Are comic books good or are they not good? Now it all depends on what you want. If you want to raise a generation that is half storm-troopers and half cannon-fodder, with a dash of illiteracy, then comic books are good. In fact, they are perfect.&#8221; Via Bill Kartalopolous, an audio file of a pretty terrific old episode of The Author Meets the Critics, featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,83,389,462,1128,1314],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capp","tag-audio","tag-ec","tag-wertham","tag-warshow","tag-spurgeon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}