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Howdy Doody 6

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COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Howdy Doody 6 Universal
Grade: 9.0
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 4707148025
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: Designed for Delinquency
Sets Competing: Seduction Productions  Score: 450
Research: See CGC’s Population Report

Owner's Description

Howdy Doody #6 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on page 309.

Wertham offers this issue as an example of a comic that appears harmless but contains harmful themes such as race ridicule. Wertham describes the comic: “Take one that looks even more harmless, Howdy Doody. I discussed this with a group of white and colored children. Their reaction was partly giggling, partly inhibited. The book depicts colored natives as stereotyped caricatures, violent, cowardly, cannibalistic and so superstitious that they get scared by seltzer tablets and popping corn and lie down in abject surrender on their faces before two little white boys.”



 
 
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