Lawbreaker Seduction
 Lawbreakers Always Lose 7

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COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Lawbreakers Always Lose 7 Universal
Grade: 6.5
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 0323691013
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: 1954-55 U.S. Senate Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency Report and Testimony
Designed for Delinquency
Sets Competing: Seduction Productions  Score: 62
Lawbreaker Seduction  Score: 62
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Lawbreakers Always Lose #7 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in illustration #3 with the caption “Comic-book philosophy”.

Illustration #3 shows the title panel for the story “Kid Melton the Killer without a Friend”. In this panel, Kid Melton is pictured stating his philosophy “I don’t need nobody! I’d stick a shiv in my best friends back if it would get me an easy buck! Friendship is for suckers! Loyalty – that’s for jerks!”

In addition to the SOTI, Wertham used this example during his testimony to the U.S. Senate in 1954: “In connection with the ethical confusion that these crime comic books cause, I would like to show you this picture which has the comic book philosophy in the slogan a the beginning, ‘Friendship is for Suckers! Loyalty – that is for Jerks.”




 
 
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