From a reader:

Subject: LF & Comic Books Thought that would grab your attention, Jonah: I guess I’m too conditioned now to read a paragraph like this and go, “why, of course”: Wertham, Beaty notes, is often libeled as a pop-culture McCarthyite, when he was in fact a progressive scholar who ran a clinic in Harlem, and his research on black children was used in the legal challenges to segregation. Beaty contends that Wertham had legitimate questions about the social impact of art on socially vulnerable children. After your book, I guess I can see that it’s easy to get McCarthyites and progressives confused.