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Jungle Comics 98 |
| Item: |
Jungle Comics 98 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0700006001
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Owner Comments
Jungle Comics #98 is referenced in the “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) a book published by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham in 1954. A panel from the comic is referenced in SOTI illustrations #18 and #19. According to Wertham, the panel depicts a sexual reference in the form of a women’s nude body that is hidden in the drawing of a man’s shoulder in the panel. Wertham’s caption under the illustrations reads as follows: “In ordinary comic books, there are pictures within pictures for children who know how to look.” In addition to the illustrations, Jungle Comics #98 is referenced in the SOTI text on page 185 as follows: “Some of the ordinary comic books have illustrations revealing crude sexual details if you look at them in a certain way. The shoulder of a man with a red scarf around his neck shows a girl’s nude body. This is so clear that it can induce the immature reader to look for such things and stir him up sexually.” I have included a scan of the page from Jungle Comics #98 that contains the panel with the alleged sexual reference.
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Jungle Comics 143 |
| Item: |
Jungle Comics 143 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1220600012
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Owner Comments
Jungle Comics #143 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) on page 99. On page 99, Wagner is comparing the similarities between various jungle based comic books and describes Jungle Comics #143 as follows “In Jungle Comics no 143 Kaanga’s mate is being tied up once more. She is abducted on a zebra by a hulking character in a T-shirt, resembling an ex-pug, and well and truly roped up. ‘I’ll be killed,’ she says as she squirms seductively in her bonds, ‘ripped to pieces by apes!’ Actually, the reverse is what happens in this kind of comic. Animals are no match for these Wonder Women.”
The panels referenced by Wagner coming from the opening story Kaanga story “The Moon’s of Devil Drums” contained in Jungle Comics #143. I have included a scan of the page with the panel of Kaanga’s mate squirming seductively in her bonds.
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Jungle Comics 145 |
| Item: |
Jungle Comics 145 |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1131794002
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Owner Comments
Jungle Comics #145 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) on page 99. On page 99, Wagner is comparing the similarities between various jungle based comic books and describes Jungle Comics #145 as follows “In no 145 of this series, the same girl is tied up three times in ten pages, while another called Camilla (no shades of Fanny Burney here) stabs two savages, one tiger, rides a rogue elephant, and wrestles successfully with a bearded male guard”. I have included a scan from the Camilla story that shows her wrestling.
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