Previews Catalogue DR WERTHLESS MAN WHO STUDIED MURDER HC (JAN248320)

(W) Harold Schechter, Eric Powell (A) Eric Powell

From the creative team behind the award-winningDid 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.

Estimated release date: 19/02/2025

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