1951 New York Legislative Report
1951 NY Report Page 60

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COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Gang Busters 3 Universal
Grade: 7.5
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 0226943001
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: 1951 New York Legislative Report
Designed for Delinquency
Sets Competing: Seduction Productions  Score: 91
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Gang Busters #3 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) as illustration #27 with the caption “Comic-book map for crime”. From Wertham’s perspective, crime comic books contributed to juvenile delinquency by depicting techniques that criminals use to perpetrate crimes. In the illustrations section of the SOTI, Wertham lists several examples of the ways that crime comic books advance “knowledge of technique”. His examples include techniques that can be used to create crime planning maps, construct an alibi or diagram a housebreaking. A story in Gang Busters #3 contains the crime planning map that Wertham references as illustration #27 in the SOTI.


 
 
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