"Leslie also came up with the idea of The Challenger, 'an anti-fascist comic book which appeared sporadically in 1944 and once in 1945, this last time in a 64 page “deluxe” edition which had a press run of 400,000 and sold at 10 cents. The cover of the 1945 edition shows youths of the white, yellow and black races battling green demons of fear, hate and greed. Gerald Richardson, the editor, made use of nationally known cartoonists in this attempt to counter the mass production of fascist propaganda aimed at the young.'..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Leslie AHC: Leslie's comic books are so successful that the major concern of postwar critics of comic books is the "seduction of the innocent"--into communism!
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