Comstock is the great-grandson of the former United States Postal Inspector and politician Anthony Comstock.
Sarah Blakesley Chase Sara Blakeslee (born January 18, 1837 in Clermont County, Ohio) achieved notoriety after Anthony Comstock arrested her several times for distributing birth control information and devices.
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The Anthony Comstocks, the Thomas Bowdlers and Victorian hypocrisy - the predecessors of our present obscenity laws - had yet to come upon the stage.
His most famous painting, September Morn (1912), became a "Succès de scandale" in the United States in May, 1913, when Anthony Comstock, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, protested against the painting as supposedly immoral.