Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate Highlight

His diatribe would establish the pillars of an anti-comic book movement that would grow in intensity for decades to come. North was joined by even more vocal critics, including child psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, and political mavericks. In time the anti-comic book crusaders would carry their cause even further. They called upon district attorneys to appoint decency committees that would ban the most offensive publications. The crusaders even incited communities to sponsor comic book burnings outside public schools, where children collected thousands of comic books from their friends and tossed them into roaring bonfires. As the symbol of the genre, Superman was usually the first to burn.