Pulp EmpireIn the 1940s and 50s, comic books were some of the most popularand most unfilteredentertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages, until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comicsit was simply the most