Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Marijuana = Gateway Drug (1950's comic books)

Some comic book portrayals from the early 1950s of marijuana as a gateway drug. 

“The Horror Weed…Where There’s Smoke, There’s Death!” Wanted Comics #39, July 1951.

 

“The Most Terrible Menace.” The Perfect Crime #15, August 1951.


 

Trapped! Harvey Comics/Columbia University Press, 1951. A 16-page promotional comic.


 “Dope: Teen-Age Menace!” Headline Comics, March-April 1952. One-page PSA.

“Monkey on Her Back,” Youthful Hearts #1, May 1952.


 “Holiday of Horror!” Wanted Comics #51, December 1952.


 Joe Orlando, “The Monkey,” Shock SuspenStories #12, December 1953-January 1954.


 

 

 

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