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All-American Western 103 |
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All-American Western #103 Universal |
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CGC 5.5 |
| Cert #: |
1220076002
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Owner Comments
All-American Western #103 appears in Gershon Legman’s “Love & Death” (L&D) in the text on page 36.
On page 36, Legman is describing the proliferation of crime based comic book titles and mentions that publishers have resorted to disguising the ever increasing number of crime based comics and includes All-American Western #103 as one of those disguised titles.
All-American Western #103 was the inaugural issue of this title as it was formerly the superhero based All-American comic and Legman identified this renaming as a means of disguising the switch to another crime based comic.
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Fight Comics 48 |
| Item: |
Fight Comics #48 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 6.5 |
| Cert #: |
0249159003
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Owner Comments
Fight Comics #48 appears in Gershon Legman’s “Love & Death” (L&D) in the text on page 48.
Legman criticizes comic books for their use of inappropriate sexual symbols and uses an example from Fight Comics to illustrate his point “As to this enormous use of sexual symbols in comic books it is almost useless to speak, except to mention that it is a predictable enough result of censorship: the whales rushing up between the legs of women who go out to fish for minnows (Jumbo Comics #94), the rhinoceros with double horns on his nose coming up at a six-year old girl-child in the crotch (Fight Comics #48)”.
Legman’s rhinoceros horn sexual symbol referenced is taken from the splash page panel of the story “Tiger Girl” contained in Fight Comics #48.
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Jeanie 16 |
| Item: |
Jeanie Comics #16 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.5 |
| Cert #: |
0274780018
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Owner Comments
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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Jumbo Comics 94 |
| Item: |
Jumbo Comics #94 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.5 |
| Cert #: |
1568717012
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Owner Comments
Jumbo Comics #94 appears in Gershon Legman’s “Love & Death” (L&D) in the text on page 48.
On page 48, Legman references a panel from Jumbo Comics #94 for its sexual symbolism “As to this enormous use of sexual symbols in comic-books it is almost useless to speak, except to mention that it is a predictable enough result of censorship: the whales rushing up between the legs of women who go out fishing for minnows (Jumbo Comics #94)”.
The references to whales between the legs of women comes from a panel in the story “The Hawk” contained in Jumbo Comics #94.
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