Seduction Productions
Super Duck 22
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Super Duck 22
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Grade:
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6.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0198880001
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Super Duck #22 is referenced in the “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) on pages 35, 307 and 308.
While not specific to issue #22, Wertham first references the Super Duck series on page 28 and describes this comic title as “harmless”. However, on page 35, he takes offense to the harshness of issue #22 and describes it as follows “Of course there are also super-animal magazines, like Super Duck. In one of them the duck yells: ‘No! I kill the parents (of the rabbits). I am a hard guy and my heart is made of stone!’ The scene shows a rabbit crying and begging for mercy, the duck poised to kill him with a baseball bat.” Wertham takes a similar tack to Super Duck #22 in his description of the issue on pages 307-308 “Frequently the ‘good’ comics have bad features, too. They sometimes show cruelty. Ducks shoot atomic rays and threaten to kill rabbits: ‘I’ll kill the parents, I’m a hard guy and my heart is made of stone.’”
Wertham’s reference to rabbit killing comes from the story “A Hare Raising Experience” contained in Super Duck #22. In this story, told in rhyme, Super Duck decides that the price of meat is too high and stops at a pet store to buy rabbits to butcher. His son, Fauntleroy, pleads with his father to spare the lives of the rabbits. Super Duck eventually gives in and ends up with a whole family of rabbits as they multiply. I have included a scan of the page that contains the panel of Super Duck being a “hard guy”.
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