Seduction Productions
Out of This World Adventures 2
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Out of This World Adventures 2 Universal
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Grade:
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4.5
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Page Quality:
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CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
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Certification #:
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4529085001
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Out of the World Adventures #2 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on page 120.
Out of this World Adventures #2 is a pulp science fiction magazine that contains a 21 page comic insert in the middle of the book. Wertham describes the hybrid magazine/comic as follows “One interesting new development was that whole comic books and comic-book stories appeared in other publications that did not look like comic books from the outside. Sometimes a comic book would be sold as a comic as usual, but would also appear, without its cover, in an ordinary magazine. Thus the reader is relieved of the trouble of tackling connected text and can pursue at least some of the stories in the magazine by the simple picture gazing method appropriate to the comic book format. Or maybe the idea is that the young adult readers of such a magazine have barely graduated from comic books and find regular reading too hard. A regular twenty five cent pulp magazine, for example, has in the middle of it a whole sexy science fiction comic book, which alone and under a different title sells for ten cents. When the enticing blonde heroine says: ‘Keep those paws to yourself, space-rat!’ the magazine reader can save himself the effort of reading. It is clear from the picture what is meant. The magazine prints some enthusiastic response from readers to the comic book section innovation. ‘Your comic section is wonderful,’ writes one. ‘Being only 16 years old,’ writes another, ‘I just love your illustrated section. Please make it longer.’”
Wertham’s reference to the enticing blond heroine comes from the comic insert story “The Corsairs from the Coalsack!” Although Wertham incorrectly attributes the “Keep those paws to yourself, space-rat” quote to the heroine, space reporter Maeve Malloy, when it’s actually the hero, Star Patrolman Dave Kenton, that makes this statement. Wertham also fails to mention that several of the letters in the readers section of the pulp contain comments asking for the comics section to be removed from magazine as opposed the comments expressed by the 16 year old reader that Wertham references.
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