COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Real Clue Crime Stories v3 #3 Universal
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Edgar Church (Mile High)
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Certification #:
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0019150020
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Real Clue Crime Stories V#3(#3) [#27] is referenced in the “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on pages 23-24.
On pages 23-24, Wertham rails against the attempts of comic publishers to have crime comics endorsed or promoted as crime prevention tools. He describes one example as follows “Take a comic book with a characteristic crime title, a lurid cover with a picture of gangster about to be murdered by some other gangsters, and an inconspicuous circle with a purple passage of ethical make-believe: ‘This magazine is dedicated to the prevention of crime. We hope that within its pages the youth of America will learn to know crime for what it really is: a sad, black, dead end road of fools and tears.’ Compare with this sentiment some of the highlights inside this cover:
1) A criminal terrorizes a family on a farm, makes advances to the farmer’s young wife and beats the farmer when he objects.
2) He takes the little boy into the woods as a hostage.
3) The little boy, after a while, says: ‘I can’t go any faster an’ I don’t care! You’re gonna kill me anyhow!’ –to which the criminal replies: ‘Ya wise little rat! I’ll kill ya! But before I do I’ll knock yer teeth out!’
4) The little boy, as he is being beaten, ‘OH-H-H-H-H-H-H…”
5) In the end, the criminal, who of course commits many other crimes in the course of the story, is not punished by the law, but like a hero refuses to give himself up, and shoots himself.
This story has ninety-seven pictures where the criminal is winning and one for the apotheosis of his suicide. Of course there is a gun advertisement, too. If the child who read the purple passage on the cover – if he did read it – reads the book this far, he knows that this passage has nothing whatsoever to do with the contents of the comic book.”
Wertham is referencing the story “Tiger the True Story of Buck Neary – And the Greatest Manhunt in History!!” contained in Real Clue Crime Stories V#3(#3) [#27].
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