Sunday, April 17, 2022

Seduction of the Innocent & Eye of the Beholder

Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent (New York: Rinehart, 1954), 185. “Some of the ordinary comic books have illustrations revealing crude sexual details if you look at them in a certain way. The shoulder of a man with a red scarf around his neck shows a girl’s nude body.” 

 

The book’s section of b&w illustrations (between pp. 212-3) shows the comic book panel referred to, also helpfully cropping and magnifying it for the obtuse reader.

It originally appeared in Jungle Comics #98, Feb. 1948. 


 

 

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Girl Vomits Live Frog (1862) – Glove Tossed from Subway Car – “The Wife on the Flight”

 “Extraordinary Circumstances – Very!!” Kentish Gazette, 8 April 1862, p. 6.

“Life in These United States,” Reader’s Digest, Feb. 2022, p. 18. [“The Misguided Good Deed”: Jan Brunvand, The Baby Train, 125; Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, vol. 2, 418.]

"Marry-Go-Round," Reader’s Digest, Feb. 1945, p. 52. [“The Wife on the Flight”: Jan Brunvand, Baby Train, 166-8; Foaftale News 39 (June 1996), 3-4.]