The Controversy of Comics

My mind was opened today after seeing Richard's presentation on rhetoric in opposition to comics. It is amazing to me that the very things that were isolated for censorship and attacked as inappropriate and outrageous are commonplace if not mild to what is considered the norm today. Sex and violence are what we expect to comprise the main appeals and actions of current entertainment.
I was also interested to learn that comics were the medium chosen to educate many men enlisted in the army to perform basic tasks such as oil changes. Today this genre of literature is commonly employed to relay instructions and tell stories. Judging from Richard's collection, there still also seems to be a healthy readership of comic books as they were originally cherished.
I agree that Wertham was somewhat biased in his judgements, and I admire the way that Richard both praised and blamed him to give weight to his own argument and to remain objective, but I cannot but wonder that if we were exposed to the same materials at that time period if we too would not have come to the same conclusion about the explicitness and questionableness of the content of comics. I think that it is easy for us who have become callous to such explitives today to conclude that past judgements were silly and immature.