Designed for Delinquency
Fredric Wertham Picture
COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description: |
Universal
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Grade:
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7.5
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #: |
0502055003
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Following the implementation of the comic code in 1954, E.C. Comics introduced the magazine “Shock Illustrated” in October 1955. Described as “picto-fiction”, Shock Illustrated was an attempt by E.C. to recapture the audience that had been reading its highly popular horror and crime comics that were now banned by the comic code. Other magazines in the picto-fiction series included Terror Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, and Confessions Illustrated.
Fredrick Wertham, author of the “Seduction of the Innocent” and godfather of the comic book censorship movement, was keeping a watchful eye on comic book publishers and was pictured skeptically reviewing E.C.’s first issue of Shock Illustrated. The series did not prove to be popular and had a short run of just three issues.
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