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In a 1954 book titled Seduction of the Innocent , a psychologist named Fred Wertham attacked the sadistic violence and sexual deviance portrayed in comic books.
Wertham's book led to the adoption of a code of standards by the comic book industry, which included, among other things, an admonition that "sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden."
Post-Wertham, the producers were well aware of the gay take on Batman and Robin.
Wertham was a student of Freud who discovered a message that Bob Kane, Batman's creator, probably never consciously intended.