Seduction Productions
Killers 1

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Killers #1 Universal
Grade: 8.5
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0783972002
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 4/5/2015
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Killers #1 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on pages 179-181.

On page 179, Wertham describes a comic story as follows “Graphic description of sexual flagellation on the buttocks is frowned upon by the Post Office – if it occurs in adult books. But in a typical comic book for children such erotic scenes are described in detail. The villain (a foreigner, of course) has the half-nude girl in his power. As an appetizer, she is hit in the face. Then: ‘I know that you shall love me and shall be loyal after you have taken a dozen or so lashes across your beautiful back!’ She is taken to the cell, bound by the wrists to a tall post, her breasts conspicuously drawn, and pleas for mercy. The man stands behind her with a coiled whip in hand”.

Wertham’s description comes from the story “Scott Hunter of the C.I.D. Meets Mr. Zin – The Hatchet Killer” contained in Killers #1. In addition to the SOTI, this story was referenced in the New York Legislature’s 1951 Committee report on comic books.
 
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