Seduction Productions
Famous Crimes 3

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Famous Crimes #3 Universal
Grade: 6.5
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 1034103001
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 7/16/2011
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

Famous Crimes #3 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) on page 112. In this section of the book Wertham describes the negative effects of excessive violence in comic books. He is particularly critical of stories that contain injury-to-eye panels. He specifically states that the depiction of injury-to-eye violence in comic books encourages juveniles to deliberately “harm the eyes of other children”. For proof of this assertion, he provides an anecdotal story of asking juveniles who have fashioned homemade zip guns “what harm they can do with so little power” and they reply: “You shoot in the eye. Then it works”.

He goes on to narrate several examples of injury-to-eye stories including one from Famous Crimes #3. The example he cites from Famous Crimes #3 is from a storyline entitled: “Bobby Webb the Chicago Terror”. In this story, Bobby uses a trick with flash power to temporarily blind and then kill a police officer. On page 112 of the SOTI Wertham describes this injury-to-eye scene from Famous Crimes #3: “When a policeman is blinded, the criminal says: Well, he don’t have to worry about them eyes no more!” I have included scan of the injury-to-eye panel that Wertham cites from Famous Crimes #3. In addition to the SOTI reference, Famous Crimes #3 is noteworthy for containing two electrocution stories.
  
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