Esq.
Jul. 1, 2009
Hindsight
Efforts to crack down on comic-book crime fighters came to an end in July 1959. It all began in 1955 with a Los Angeles ordinance that made it a misdemeanor to sell a "crime comic book" (defined as containing words in "balloons" and five consecutive drawings depicting arson, burglary, kidnapping, train-wrecking, or such) to someone under 18 years of age. A suit followed but the ...
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