Estes Kefauver’s Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. He published his “research” (read: testimonials from his juvenile psychiatric patients strung together with anti-comics rhetoric) in a book called Seduction of the Innocent in the spring of 1954, just as he testified before Sen. This movie is dour, to say the least, but rife with gun porn for second. It divided critics, plenty of whom weren’t pleased with its slow-burn, realist storytelling. Fredric Wertham, a psychiatrist convinced that comic books were directly responsible for the scourge of juvenile delinquency, led a nationwide anti-comics crusade that proved hugely effective. JIN-ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE (1999) On the slower side of things, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade was directed by the key animator of Akira and Ghost in the Shell, Hiroyuki Okiura. In this era, elaborate ruses and misdirection were the twin engines of comic book storytelling, which meant many a comic began with Batman performatively rejecting Robin as his partner, an act that would send the tearful lad to his sumptuously appointed bedroom to (choke!) and (sob!) his guts out. And of course there were the plots, many of which turned on Robin’s seething jealousy over Batman’s romantic interests and his paranoia that he might get replaced at Batman’s side by some rival crimefighter.