Editing Fredric Wertham (section)

===Later career===
Wertham's views on mass media have largely overshadowed his broader concerns with violence and with overprotecting children from psychological harm. His writings about the effects of [[racial segregation]] were used as evidence in the landmark Supreme Court case ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'', and part of his 1966 book ''A Sign for Cain'' dealt with the involvement of medical professionals in [[the Holocaust]]. To promote this book, Wertham made two memorable appearances on the ''[[Mike Douglas Show]]'' where he ended up debating his theories with the co-hosts, [[Barbara Feldon]] (April 10, 1967) and [[Vincent Price]] (June 19, 1967). Excerpts were shown at the 2003 [[San Diego Comic-Con]].<ref>[https://www.newsfromme.com/2003/07/18/blogging-from-the-con/ Blogging From the Con]</ref>

[[University of Calgary]] professor Bart Beaty, the only person allowed access to Wertham's personal papers before they were unsealed in 2010, reveals that Wertham tried in 1959 to sell a follow-up to ''Seduction of the Innocent'' concerning the effects of television on children, to be titled ''The War on Children''.<ref>The manuscript is in Box 149, folder 4 of The Papers of Fredric Wertham, 1818–1986, Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections Division.</ref> Much to Wertham's frustration, no publishers were interested in publishing it.<ref>Beaty, Bart (2009). Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p.170-176.</ref>

Wertham always denied that he favored censorship or had anything against comic books in principle, and in the 1970s he focused his interest on the benign aspects of the comic fandom subculture; in his last book, ''The World of Fanzines'' (1974), he concluded that [[fanzine]]s were "a constructive and healthy exercise of creative drives". This led to an invitation for Wertham to address the [[Comic Art Convention|New York Comic Art Convention]]. Still infamous to most comics fans of the time, Wertham encountered suspicion and heckling at the convention, and stopped writing about comics thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comic-art.com/biographies/wertham1.htm |publisher=Comic Art & Graffix Gallery|title=Biographies: Fredric Wertham, M.D.| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716132312/http://www.comic-art.com/biographies/wertham1.htm | archive-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

Before retirement he became a professor of psychiatry at [[New York University]], a senior psychiatrist in the [[New York City Department of Hospitals]], and a psychiatrist and the director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at the [[Bellevue Hospital Center]].<ref name=obit/>