Articles and other published works By Dr. Fredric Wertham
Adult Crudzine Illustrated #1, 1969 | Fanzine, print run 200, with Wertham letter | |
Alien Critic #10, August, 1974 | Fanzine with Wertham letter | |
Alien Critic #12, February, 1975 | Fanzine with Wertham letter | |
American Journal of Psychotherapy v2, #3, July, 1948 | Abstract of the symposium "The Psychopathology of Comic Books", held by the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, March 19, 1948. You might call this "The Secret Origin of Dr. Wertham". His articles in Saturday Review of Literature, Ladies' Home Journal and Reader's Digest received greater exposure among the general public, but this article in a professional journal represents one of Dr. Wertham's earliest published anti-comics works, with material by Gershon "Love & Death" Legman as well. | Read it! |
Amra, V2, #58, January, 1973 | Fredric Wertham on Conan's psychology | |
Atlantic Monthly, March, 1952 | Fredric Wertham "A Study of Pain"   Read it at TheAtlantic.com Thanks to Stephen Bruzdowski for the link. | |
Auto-Erotism by Wilhelm Stekel | Introduction by Dr. Fredric Wertham | |
The Barbecue Pit #16, 1974 | Fanzine with Wertham leter | |
Bulldog #8, 1975 | Fanzine with Wertham leter | |
Censorship of Comic Books: A Statement of Opposition on Civil Liberties Grounds, May, 1955 | Anti-censorship pamphlet from the ACLU; includes two short extracts from Wertham writings. | |
The Collector #16, Fall, 1969 | Letter from Wertham in response to prior criticisms. | |
Diversifier #7, 1975 | Wertham contribution | |
Fact v1, #6, 1964 | "The Huckster as a Headshrinker" by Wertham | |
Fandom Unlimited #1 | Interview with Wertham | |
Freon #3 | Letter by Wertham | |
Gosh Wow #1, September, 1967 | Fanzine with "Reading for the Innocent" by Wertham | |
Graphic Story Magazine #11 | Fanzine with short letter by Wertham | |
Harpers Bazaar, January, 1948 | "The People vs. Medea" by Dr. Fredric Wertham | |
Ladies' Home Journal, November, 1953 pp. 50-53 | Fredric Wertham What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books Read it! | |
Ladies' Home Journal, March, 1959 | Fredric Wertham Ten Ways a Child May Tell You He is Headed for a Troubled Teen Age | |
Ladies' Home Journal, February, 1960 | How Movie and TV Violence Affect Children by Fredric Wertham, M.D. | |
Ladies' Home Journal, August, 1961 | Sex Crimes Can be Prevented by Fredric Wertham, M.D. | |
Pageant Magazine, December, 1957 | What to Tell your Child about Sex Offenders by Dr. Fredric Wertham Read it! | |
Reader's Digest, August, 1948, pp. 15-18 | Fredric Wertham The Comics . . . Very funny! Condensed from Saturday Review of Literature Read it! | |
Reader's Digest, May, 1954 | Fredric Wertham "Comic Books - Blueprints for Delinquency!" Condensed from Seduction of the Innocent | |
Riverside Quarterly #15, June, 1970 | Wertham Letter | |
Riverside Quarterly #18 (v5#2), February, 1972 | Wertham Letter, pp. 151-152 | |
Saturday Review of Literature, May 29, 1948 | Fredric Wertham The Comics . . . Very funny! Read it! | |
Saturday Review of Literature, February 5, 1949 | Fredric Wertham, "It's Murder" | |
Saturday Review of Literature, July 30, 1949 | Fredric Wertham responds to Philip Wylie | |
Saturday Review of Literature, October 1, 1949 | Fredric Wertham "The Air-Conditioned Conscience" | |
Saturday Review of Literature, April 22, 1950 | Review of "The Art of Real Happiness". Review by Fredric Wertham | |
Saturday Review of Literature, January 31, 1953 | Review of "The Meaning of Dreams", by Calvin S. Hall, An Essay-Review by Fredric Wertham | |
Saturday Review of Literature, September 19, 1953 | Review of I Was a Drug Addict, by Leroy Smith and David Roth, Reviewed by Fredric Wertham, M.D.. | |
Saturday Review of Literature, April 9, 1955 | Fredric Wertham "It's Still Murder", one of the forgotten anti-comics articles by Wertham Read it! | |
Saturday Review of Literature, July 5, 1958 | Sins of Their Fathers, by Marjorie Rittwagen, M.D., Reviewed by Fredric Wertham, M.D. | |
Science Fiction Review (The Alien Critic) #12, February, 1975 | Fanzine with Wertham letter | |
Scouting September, 1954 | Dr. Wertham anti-comics article | |
The SF & F Journal #88, February, 1977 | Dr. Wertham letter in response to the fanzine's discussion of The World of Fanzines | |
SOG #21 1972 | Fanzine with a 3-page article: Fredric Wertham on Television Violence | |
Squa Tront #8 1978 | Letter by Wertham | |
Tomboy, by Ralph Ellson, Bantam Books, 1951 | Introduction by Fredric Wertham. | |
The World Within, Fiction Illuminating the Neuroses of our Time, Whittlesey House / Mc Graw-Hill Book Co, 1947 | Introduction by Fredric Wertham. | |
Yandro#224 | Letter by Fredric Wertham. | |