Designed for Delinquency
Love & Death
COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description: |
Universal
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Grade:
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5.5
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE
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Certification #: |
0274780018
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Jeanie #16 appears in Gershon Legman’s “Love & Death” (L&D) in the text on pages 47-48.
Legman is critical of comics targeted at teenage girls and uses an example from Jeanie #16 to make his point: “And so there are published not only a handful of female crime and western comics, but whole series of so called teenage comic-books specifically for girls, in which adolescent sexuality is achieved in sadistic disguise, without father-daughter incest, without intercourse, without petting, without even a single kiss, through a continuous humiliation of scarecrow fathers and transvestist boyfriends by ravishingly pretty girls, beating up the men with flowerpots and clocks and brooms, wearing their clothes, throwing them out of windows, setting them on fire, pulling out their teeth with plies, smashing them in the face with flatirons, and breaking bottles of ketchup over their heads so as not to deprive young readers of the sight of something that at least looks like blood. (With the exception of the standard ketchup trick, all of these are from a single teenage comic, Jeanie #16.)”
I have included a scan of Jeanie pulling teeth with pliers as described by Legman.
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