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Rulah Jungle Goddess 21 |
| Item: |
Rulah Jungle Goddess 21 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
3996370006
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Owner Comments
Rulah Jungle Goddess #21 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on pages 388-389.
The reference on pages 388-389 is drawn from the story entitled “The Silent Death” contained in Rulah Jungle Goddess #21. Wertham recounts the story as a means of demonstrating how comic books pollute the minds of children by spreading propaganda. He describes the story as follows “At a time when accusations of bacterial warfare cloud the international scene, children here in the United States and, through export, in many other countries, are instructed that the United States Government is carrying out secret researches on bacteriological warfare and that it is practiced on colored natives: A man goes to a Government building marked ‘RESEARCH DIVISION.’ A scientist in a white coat tells him: ‘You are aware of the secrecy of these experiments. They are more deadly than the A-bomb!’ Showing him a syringe, he goes on: ‘There’s enough minute bugs in this to kill everything in New York! Pollute drinking water! Poison masses-’ The man tells the girl: ‘Get a load of this Liz. Bacterial warfare!’ He goes on to Africa to practice on the natives there what he has learned in the U.S. Government Research Building. In one picture you are shown a book with the title Bacterial War. This is not propaganda abroad, but the comic-book industry at home”
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| Slot: |
Rulah Jungle Goddess 22 |
| Item: |
Rulah Jungle Goddess 22 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1994870003
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Owner Comments
Rulah Jungle Goddess #22 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on pages 22-23.
On pages 22-23 Wertham describes the following educational content of a comic book “For instance, in a jungle comic book what does the educational page show? This one is entitled ‘The First Americans.’ A young girl in modern evening dress, her wrists chained to a tall upholstered structure so that she leans backward in a recumbent position revealing the full length of her legs, with a definite erotic suggestion, is being menaced with a big knife held by a gruesome masked figure: ‘At harvest and planting time they would cut out the heart of a living victim.’ In other words, the education to sadism permeating this whole book is here fortified in the guise of history”.
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