Capsulized remarks at the Spring 1972 meeting of the Newspaper Comics Council

rederic Wertham's The Seduction of the Innocent (1954) maintained that comics exercised a bad influence on young people and led to an increase in juvenile delinquency. This attack led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1955 and the Newspaper Comics Council (NCC), an organization made up of 80 newspaper executives and cartoonists to police the content of comic books and strips. At this meeting Stan Lee, among others in the comics industry, was asked by the council to address the relevance of comics in relation to issues in contemporary society.