Seduction Productions
Your United States nn

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Your United States #nn Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 1109593005
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Seduction Productions
Date Added: 2/21/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Your United States, an unnumbered comic book, was referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on pages 309-310. Wertham was using Your United States as an example of how supposedly “good” comic books contain images that are harmful to children. More specifically, his description is as follows:

“Among other good comic books are those that teach history. Typical is one called Your United States. It devotes one page to each state and, although on bad paper and as smudgily printed as the others, it really contains some instructive information. But practically every state, although it gets only one page, has a scene of violence; if one doesn’t, that is made up for in other states where there are two or three such scenes. For instance, a man hanged from a tree by a vigilance committee; Negroes in chains; corpses and dying men; a girl tied to a tree, her bound wrists above her head, her skirt blowing up in the wind with a coy facial expression of fright as in a sadist’s dream; a girl about to raped or massacred. Is that what you want your children to think is the history of “Your United States?”

As you can see from the attached scan, Tennessee is the lucky winner of the state that contains the image of the bound girl with the flirty skirt and coy expression.
 
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