DR WERTHLESS MAN WHO STUDIED MURDER HC
DR WERTHLESS MAN WHO STUDIED MURDER HC
| Writer: |
Schechter, Harold |
| Artist: |
Powell, Eric |
| Publisher: |
DARK HORSE PRH |
| Ordercode: |
OCT241156 |
| Publication Date: |
19/02/2025 |
| From the creative team behind the award-winning Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? comes an examination of one of the most polarizing figures in pop culture, Dr. Fredric Wertham. Reviled by comic book fans as a witch-hunting zealot who stirred up a panic among the parents of America for his own self-promoting purposes, he was also a renowned psychiatrists who, among other accomplishments, opened a clinic in Harlem for disadvantaged African-American patients and played an important role in the desegregation of the nation's schools. Believing that murder could be abolished through a proper understanding of the mental and social roots of criminal violence, he took a genuinely humane approach to some of the most notorious homicidal maniacs of his time, while simultaneously exploiting their stories for his own commercial ends. |