Seduction Productions
Authentic Police Cases 3

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Authentic Police Cases #3 Universal
Grade: 7.5
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0174245001
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 1/1/2011
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

Authentic Police Cases #3 is referenced in the “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) as illustration #9 and also referenced in the text on pages 161 and 181. Illustration #9 depicts a panel from Authentic Police Cases #3 where two thugs are draining the blood from a woman as a means to keep her quiet. The SOTI caption under this illustration is “Outside the forbidden pages of de Sade, you find draining a girl’s blood only in children’s comics”. The blood draining panel and story is a reprint of a story originally told in Red Seal Comics #16.

Overstreet only lists illustration #9 as a SOTI reference and does not list the text references on pages 161 and 181. However, from the text reference on page 161, it’s clear that Wertham is referring to Authentic Police Cases #3. On page 161 he is discussing how children receive crime tips from various comic books. He references a comic book example that contains a page entitled “Lessons for Larceny”, with a subtitle, “Watch for Trouble when a Swindle Backfires”. This clearly references a page in Authentic Police Cases #3. Although Wertham slightly misquoted the comic as the actual title of the page is “Lesson from Larceny”. While Authentic Police Cases #3 reprints stories from Red Seal #16, the “Lessons from Larceny” page was not contained in Red Seal #16 so it’s likely that Wertham used Authentic Police Cases #3 for his SOTI work and not Red Seal Comics #16. However, both books are listed as a SOTI book by Overstreet. The web site www.lostsoti.org is a great resource for more details on this SOTI reference and many others.

The text on page 181 refers to the blood drawing illustration where Wertham describes this panel as a “morbid fantasy”.

I have included a cover scan and a scan of the blood drawing panel for reference.
  
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