According to the passage, what can we infer to be the central message of Fredric Wertham's The Seduction of the Innocent?
A.
Adults reading violent comic books were as likely to be corrupted by them as young people were.
B.
The horror comic books of the late 1940s were inferior to the superhero comic books that gained popularity during World War Ⅱ.
C.
Comic books were leading the nation's youth into crime, violence, and drug abuse.
D.
Creating a regulatory board to censor the comic book industry would drive the worst offenders out of the business.
E.
Comic books would never be able to convey stories of any serious literary merit.