{"podcast":{"title":"HISTORY This Week","slug":"history-this-week-186536","podcast_index_feed_id":186536,"rss_url":"https://rss.amperwave.net/v2/feed/audacynetwork/history-this-week","website_url":"http://www.historythisweekpodcast.com/","image_url":"https://images.castfire.com/image/661/0/0/0/0-8382930.jpg","author":"The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios","episode_count":326,"summary":"This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at historythisweek@history.com.HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T18:20:34.640440+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-this-week-186536"},"episode":{"title":"The Great Comic Book Scare","slug":"the-great-comic-book-scare","published_at":"2026-02-02T09:31:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-this-week-186536/the-great-comic-book-scare","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-this-week-186536","url":"http://historythisweekpodcast.com","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247186/8247186_2026-04-14-053926.192.mp3?rssID=6398","summary":"February 4, 1955. In a New York courtroom, the Comics Czar takes the stand. He’s in charge of enforcing a new code, meant to keep comic books from corrupting America’s youth, and he’s here to prove that his work has cleaned up the industry. But that afternoon, a noted psychologist named Fredric Wertham argues that his work has not nearly gone far enough. When the hearing comes to a close, the committee is left to decide: what is the future of the comic book? Why did one of the country’s leading psychologists see them as a major threat to American children? And what can the Great Comic Book Scare teach us about moral panics? Special thanks to our guests, David Hajdu, author of The Ten-Cent Plague ; and Jeremy Dauber, author of American Comics: A History . ** This episode originally aired Jan 31, 2022. Get in touch: historythisweek@history.com Follow on Instagram: @historythisweekpodcast Follow on Facebook: ⁠HISTORY This Week Podcast⁠ To stay updated: http://historythisweekpodcast.com","meta_description":"February 4, 1955. In a New York courtroom, the Comics Czar takes the stand. He’s in charge of enforcing a new code, meant to keep comic books from corrupt…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1693,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-this-week-186536/episodes/the-great-comic-book-scare/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-this-week-186536/the-great-comic-book-scare.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}