Seduction Productions
Dagar Desert Hawk 21

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Dagar Desert Hawk #21 Universal
Grade: 6.5
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0075965001
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 3/4/2012
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

Dagar Desert Hawk #21 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) on page 104.

One of Wertham’s concerns articulated in the SOTI included the tendency of comic books to depict non-white individuals as inferior. For example, on page 104, he noted that “A large part of the violence and sadism in comic books is practiced by individuals or on individuals who are depicted as inferior, sub-human beings. In this way children can indulge in fantasies of violence as something permissible.” He goes on to note several examples and cites a panel from Dagar Desert Hawk #21 “In another comic book the hero throws bombs and a Negro from his airplane. A picture shows the bombs and the Negro in mid-air while the hero calls out: ‘BOMBS AND BUMS AWAY!’”

The “Bombs and Bums Away” panel is contained in a story entitled “Flood of Death”. In this story, the hero, Safari Cary, is seeking to protect the native population from the manipulations of a tobacco plantation owner. The plantation owner has dammed a river and Cary, using his cargo plane, is planning to destroy the dam. Along the way, one of the plantation workers tries to stop Cary and he is ousted out of the plane along with the bombs meant to destroy the dam. For further reference, I have included a scan of the page from the story that contains the “bombs and bums away” panel.
 
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