Seduction Productions
Dagar Desert Hawk 19

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Dagar Desert Hawk #19 Universal
Grade: 7.0
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0940753006
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 5/31/2011
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

Dagar Desert Hawk #19 is referenced in the “Seduction of the Innocent” on page 180. In the passages on this page Wertham discusses the use of various sadistic sexual themes in comic books including the depiction of erotic hangings. More specifically, he states the following:

In a comic book, typically full of blood, violence and nudity, the erotic hanging theme is exploited. The average reader, of a generation not brought up on comics, may not realize the connection between sex and hanging, with one of the typical perverse fantasies for wishing to hang an undressed girl and watch her struggles. But this is made abundantly clear to children in their daily reading matter. In one story a man “kills for sport.” There is a sequence with illustrations of half-nude girls where he makes this comment: “Ho-Ho! What a hangman I make! The police are blundering fools! But I am an artist! My noose will fit around that pretty’s neck!” In the next picture the blond girl, clad in a noose, a bra and bikini trunks is hanging from a tree. And you see her again, hanging “in a death struggle.”

Wertham’s description is clearly referring to a story starring the jungle character Tangi written by Alec Hope contained in Dagar Desert Hawk #19. In this story, an escaped convict makes his way to a jungle island and conducts several murders through the use of hangings. Just as Wertham describes, one of the hangings involves the main character Tangi - a scantily clad young women warrior of the jungle. She ultimately escapes the attempted hanging and dispatches the bad guy with a hanging of her own. I have include a scan of the page from this story with Tangi in her death struggle – its up to you to decide if Wertham was right in his analysis of this being an exploitation of a sadistic sexual theme. To read the full story, check out the digital comic museum web site (www.digitalcomicmuseum.com). This web site provides free online versions of many golden age comic books.
  
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