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Showing posts with label Wertham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wertham. Show all posts
Monday, March 4, 2024

Monday Madness LUNATICKLE "Horrible Comic Story Behind the Horror Story Comic Books!"

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I'll let the original editors introduce you to today's Monday Madness ... "This, then, is the true tale of the Comic Book Indus...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

The Horror! The Horror (Comics, that is)!

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Monster Crime! Now  that's  a title! Yeah, they  knew  what budding juvenile delinquents wanted back in the 1950s! As you might have gue...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Reading Room / Halloween Horror UNCANNY TALES "Witch in the Woods"

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 Since we posted a story about people blaming horror comic books for all the world's evils ... ...we thought we'd run another tale b...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Reading Room / Halloween Horror SUSPENSE "Raving Maniac"

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People blaming pop culture (like movies and video games) for violence and evil in society is nothing new... ...as seen in this  over 65-year...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

A Halloween Treat (No Trick!)...Horror Comics of the 1950s!

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Since brick-and-mortar stores are already selling Halloween stuff, we now offer the following... Before videogames came along, comics, t...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Britain's Fredric Wertham and the Gorbals Vampire!

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Most readers of this blog are familiar with  Dr. Fredric Wertham  and his notorious book  Seduction of the Innocent , which basically at...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Design of the Week Redux: HALLOWEEN HOLE-IN-THE-HEAD!

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Each week, we post a limited-edition design , to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another...unless it sells really well, then ...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Design of the Week: HALLOWEEN HOLE-IN-THE-HEAD!

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Each week, we post a limited-edition design , to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another! This week... With Halloween comin...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Reading Room MENACE "Walking Dead"

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As we pointed out yesterday , "Walking Dead" didn't always refer to zombies... ...but it sure does here! Th...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Holy Halloween, Batman! Wertham Was RIGHT!

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New Pics on Just Jared Say it ALL ... In Seduction of the Innocent , Dr Fredric Wertham claimed, "The Batman type of story may s...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Reading Room STRANGE JOURNEY "Space is a Secret"

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Before you read this tale, go HERE ... ..because this is the second version of this story! Like almost all other comics publ...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Ride the Halloween Night with the Classic GHOST RIDER!

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He began life in the late 1940s as The Calico Kid , a masked hero whose secret identity was a lawman who felt justice was constrained by l...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

San Diego "Tales from ComicCon" 5th Anniversary Shirts & Stuff!

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On July 24th, 2010, at the San Diego ComicCon , reality became far more frightening than any horror comic book! Thankfully, the victim ...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Naughty OR Nice at Christmastime? Have We Got a Grrrl for You...

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One of the most notorious Golden Age characters, Phantom Lady was also one of the first costumed superheroines, beating out Wonder Woman...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Under the X-Mas Tree: Behold...the Blue Bolt!

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In the 1940s, comic books were the equivalent of videogames today. Everybody started publishing them, even the staid Saturday Evening P...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

One Million Moms vs Dracula!

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Shades of Fredric Wertham and Seduction of the Innocent ...the group One Million Moms has issued a fatwa against the Prince of Darkness....
Saturday, February 2, 2013

Does Popular Culture Corrupt Kids?

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For the answer, you must read... ...by Max Allan Collins with EC Comics -style illustrations by Terry Beatty and pulp-style cover by G...