Seduction Productions
Famous Crimes 7

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Famous Crimes #7 Universal
Grade: 8.0
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0918423003
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 1/5/2014
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Famous Crimes #7 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on page 44.Wertham describes his experience with Famous Crimes #7 as follows “Once in the waiting room of the Clinic I saw a little boy crouched over a comic book, oblivious to everything around him. In passing I could see the title of the story he was reading. Big capital letters spelled out T A R Z A N. Surely, I thought, the adventures of Tarzan are harmless enough for juveniles of any age. But I was mislead, as many parents no doubt are. When I looked at this comic book later I found on the inside cover the picture of a man tied up in an agonizing position – a man ‘found dead in a Dallas park, his hands tied behind him and two bullets in his worthless carcass’; another man shot in the back as he is thrown out of a care (‘Get out, ya stinking rat!’) – and more of the same. Tarzan was not the whole title of the story I had seen the boy in the waiting room reading. There was a subtitle ‘The Wyoming Killer’ and two other headings, ‘From Police Files’ and ‘A True Crime Story.’ The story was not about Tarzan, but about a hero who robbed a bank and shot five men to death.”
  
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