Fredric Wertham - Seduction of the Innocent (1954)

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For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.

Fredric Wertham

Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.

Fredric Wertham

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

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