Seduction Productions
Jungle Comics 98

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COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Jungle Comics 98 Universal
Grade: 8.5
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0700006001
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: 1951 New York Legislative Report
Designed for Delinquency
Sets Competing: Jungle Love  Score: 302
Seduction Productions  Score: 302
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Jungle Comics #98 is referenced in the “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) a book published by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham in 1954. A panel from the comic is referenced in SOTI illustrations #18 and #19. According to Wertham, the panel depicts a sexual reference in the form of a women’s nude body that is hidden in the drawing of a man’s shoulder in the panel. Wertham’s caption under the illustrations reads as follows: “In ordinary comic books, there are pictures within pictures for children who know how to look.” In addition to the illustrations, Jungle Comics #98 is referenced in the SOTI text on page 185 as follows: “Some of the ordinary comic books have illustrations revealing crude sexual details if you look at them in a certain way. The shoulder of a man with a red scarf around his neck shows a girl’s nude body. This is so clear that it can induce the immature reader to look for such things and stir him up sexually.” I have included a scan of the page from Jungle Comics #98 that contains the panel with the alleged sexual reference.


 
 
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