While the CCA and its infamous stamp of approval have been history for over a decade, the stigma that inspired its creation is still alive and well. While some publishers rejected the Comics Code by going "underground," the CCA regulated the content of mainstream comics for nearly six decades until it was discontinued in 2011. Fearing that the federal government would begin regulating comics, the industry adopted a form of internalized censorship through the Comics Code Authority, which drafted a strict set of borderline-puritanical guidelines that comics would have to follow to be sold in most stores. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency launched an investigation into the comic book industry, with several prominent figures from the industry being called for questioning by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. Inspired by Wertham's sensational accusations, the U.S.
While Wertham's research would later be discredited, the release of Seduction of the Innocent ignited a nationwide moral panic that drove several cities to outlaw the creation and ownership of comics and led to public book burnings. Fredrick Wertham, a renowned child psychologist from New York, wrote and published Seduction of the Innocent, which claimed that comics not only desensitized children to violence but were also the leading cause of the spike in juvenile delinquency that had been plaguing the post-war United States. The growing public resentment for comic books eventually hit a harsh crescendo in the mid-1950s when Dr.
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