Modern family: Addition

Horror shock (Back to Comics)

The RoboCop debut month eventually ended and the month of Holidays came along.

When leaves of season change fell on the various parts of the world, I was much more busy in other areas than comic publishing. Despite my busyness to other important things, my commitment to my ever growing loyal Dunphy train is also important to me at this stage, so with adjustment to my schedule and stealing time from some less important and less urgent things, I completed my next Dunphy title and the next Creed Comics title is about to be commenced soon.

As the half-robot law enforcement officer blossomed quite well, it was greatly important for the top predator species from outer space to have its own success as well.

I don't have that much  confidence in this franchise though when things began but my projected release strategy may change things up.

Dunphy Comics always has and had already been establishing its own path when it comes to handling comic books, it just so happens that religious day of horror, Halloween will became its new premeditated target.

The new and awaited comic title has finally arrived and it is much more significant in its advancement of story-telling and the reawakening of a sleeping genre.

The sleeping genre will re- connect with hidden desire of horror among loyalist as well. Afterall fear and horror is fundamental building block of mankind's conscious mind and Halloween exists to celebrate horror.

Of course, horror comics happen to be one of the driving genres that dominated the comic industry at some point.

In the US market, horror comic books reached a peak in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s.

However, sometime in the 1950s, a man named Dr. Fredric Wertham published 'Seduction of the Innocent'.

A book claiming that horror, crime, and other comics were a direct cause of juvenile delinquency.

Wertham did his own observations from the children that came to his psychiatric clinics and noted that all of them read comic books and all of them had 'problems'.

Eventually, despite being man of intelligence and scientific temperament, he confused causation with obscure correlation that too was very fragile to began with, he concluded that reading comic books would eventually lead children to the same troubled fate of the patients that were coming to his aid.

It was from that extremely biased, scientifically unproven and bad professional perspective that the comic book became outcasted and painted in an evil light. Not taking into even a iota of account that other normal children who read comics and grew up just fine.

Wertham, so sure of his assertions, then proposed in his book that reading violent comic books encouraged violent behavior in children.

He also painted a picture of a large and pervasive industry, shrouded in secrecy and masterminded by a few, that operated upon the innocent and defenseless minds of the young.

'Seduction of the Innocent' became an apt title to whatever schemes that Wertham believed to be orchestrated by people in the industry.

Thus, the comic book burnings and the formation of the Comics Code Authority went underway.

Finally, the imposition of the self-censorship Comics Code Authority towards any comic book content contributed to the demise of many titles and the toning down of others.

From this alone, I can peruse that horror itself was one of the biggest contributors for its crippling demise and the creation of the CCA.

Of course, it wasn't all bleak for the horror genre as it would eventually see its resurgence and its many ups and downs.