Seduction Productions
Captain Video 2

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Captain Video #2 Universal
Grade: 7.0
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: Mohawk Valley
Certification #: 0016811008
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 7/23/2011
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Captain Video #2 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) on page 382. In this section of the SOTI, near the end of the book, Wertham is reflecting on the effects of violence on juveniles from other mass media outlets such as television. It is in this context that he describes the crossover of television with comics and uses the example of Captain Video. He goes on to caution readers to not assume that comics based on television shows are any less dangerous than the other crime comics. With regards to Captain Video #2, he describes the comic as follows: Of course television and crime comic books also meet when comic books are based on television programs. Take the example of Captain Video. This comic book is certainly as bad as other crime comics. There is a lot of assorted violence. Morbid fantasies are conjured up for children, like the one that suddenly mankind’s legs do not function: “All of us have recited our theories and admittedly found them inapplicable! There is no hope for mankind’s regaining the use of its lower extremities!” The treatment for this infirmity costs “one million dollars for each patient.” The hero has a “dreaded electronic ray gun whose scintillating bolt results in complete paralysis.” There is the superman cult of the “one man alone to stem the tide of frightening destruction, guardian of the world.” The injury-to-the-eye motif is not missing, either.”I have included a scan of the first page of the story “The Time When Men Could Not Walk!” that Wertham cites as his example on page 382.
  
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