Menace 7's 'The Witch in the Woods' by Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott in 1953 was a reaction to the comic book moral panic in the media of the era. PreCodeHorror StanLee sponsored
warning that comics were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. It fueled a Senate inquiry that saw comic book publishers such as Atlas form the Comics Code Authority and abandon the likes of horror comic books. One year earlier, in, #7, Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott were aware of the concern and published a story about a kid reading horror comic books, much to his father's disgust.
In order to correct the child's reading habits, he decides to read him the kind of fairy tales he grew up with as a kid and goes for Hansel And Gretel. Though clearly forgetting some aspects of this. With Joe Sinnott mirroring images common in the likes of the targeted EC Comics horror titles and making the case that this is just the"same old same old" and that parents have forgotten what it's like to be kids. These days, you could do similar with Gender Queer and much of the stories that objecting parents read when they were the same age. A copy of the pre-Code-baiting
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