Seduction Productions
Crime Files 5

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Crime Files #5 Universal
Grade: 5.5
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 0274780011
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 3/12/2016
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Crime Files #5 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on page 4.

On page 4, with a touch of irony, Wertham describes how crime comics point out the increasing juvenile crime rate. Wertham describes one passage as follows “In recent years children’s-court judges have been faced with such offenses as assault, murder, rape, torture, forgery, etc. So it has come about that at the very time when it is asked that more youthful offenders be sent to juvenile courts, these courts are ill prepared to deal with the types of delinquency that come before them. Comic books point that out even to children. One of them shows a pretty young girl who has herself picked up by men in cars and then robs them, after threatening them with a gun. She calls herself a ‘hellcat’ and the men ‘suckers’. Finally she shoots and kills a man. When brought before the judge she says defiantly: ‘You can’t pin a murder rap on me! I’m only seventeen! That lets me out in this state!’ To which the judge replies: ‘True – but I can hold you for juvenile delinquency!’”

The reference comes from the interior story “Hellcat” contained in Crime Files #5. I have include a scan of the last page of this story and you can see that Helen “Hellcat” Harris does indeed declare herself free of the murder rap but is ultimately sentenced to life once she turns 18.
 
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