Amazing Comics: Horror, Crime, Sex And Gore Sparked Backlash In 1950s

[Mac Man]

An article from the Hartford Courant about the Pre-Code Comic Era. LInky Pretty good stuff altogether!

[Shootydog]

[Count]

truckloads

[shiverbones]

Nice to read, thank for the link.

 

Pre-code horror...

[Jeffro.]

That pic is heartbreaking.

[buttock]

That pic is heartbreaking.

 

I love it! look at the boy's face. He's PIZZED that he has to throw those away.

[Karma23]

"Ten cents at your neighborhood drugstore or news stand will buy your child a short course in murder, mayhem, robbery, rape, cannibalism, carnage, sex, sadism and worse."

 

Ahhh, the good ole days

[Norrin_Radd]

I wonder what Flee could make of this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And you can read more about the story behind Crime Does Not Pay here.

 

 

[CAMERANIAC]

That pic is heartbreaking.

 

I love it! look at the boy's face. He's PIZZED that he has to throw those away.

Funny because that was the first thing I noticed. Child abuse!

[Scrooge]

Nice to read, thank for the link.

 

Pre-code horror...

 

Yes but I have issues with this quote:

 

"By 1952, one in three comic books sold in the U.S. was a horror comic, Hadju writes."

 

I doubt that's true. Horror comics first didn't represent 1/3rd of the comics published. So while it's possible that they represented 1/3rd of the comics sold, I find that doubtful because of how high the numbers for the staples (Batman, Supes, Disney, ...) still were that I can't fathom they ended up being one third of the books sold.

[gozer]

Great article - thanks for posting

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[Pete Morisi talking with Charles Biro]

 

"'Listen, Pete,'" he (Biro) says, "'We've got a good thing going here, and we don't want to lose it. I don't want to see any blood and guts. I don't want any violence. Just give me detail, lots of detail!'

 

"'Detail of what?' I say. 'What am I supposed to show?'

 

"Charlie says, ' ' (4 letter word, starts with T)

 

 

 

 

 

[EastEnd]

I wonder what Flee could make of this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And you can read more about the story behind Crime Does Not Pay here.

 

 

And thanks to events like these, people now pay thousands of dollars for these babies...

[Subliminal]

Imagine if that guy was smart enough to know that events like these would drive prices up and he took that load to his house.

 

 

[EastEnd]

Imagine if that guy was smart enough to know that events like these would drive prices up and he took that load to his house.

 

 

You don't think that's Mile High Chuck's pick-up do you?

[Mac Man]

Well, maybe there is a new pedigree of pre-codes in the greater Hartford area waiting to be discovered?

 

To the Batmobile!

 

[binarysunrise]

Imagine if that guy was smart enough to know that events like these would drive prices up and he took that load to his house.

 

 

You don't think that's Mile High Chuck's pick-up do you?

 

 

[precodekeith]

Man, I see a copy of Web of Mystery, Astonishing, and Fantastic Fears. Anyone make anything else out in the pile???

[heinlein99]

Man, I see a copy of Web of Mystery, Astonishing, and Fantastic Fears. Anyone make anything else out in the pile???

 

That might be VOODOO right under the WoM.

 

 

 

 

I HATE the burning of books. I remember when one of my older sisters got religious back in the 70's and attended a rock album burning. I hated that, too.

[october]

Man, I see a copy of Web of Mystery, Astonishing, and Fantastic Fears. Anyone make anything else out in the pile???

 

There is an issue of Big Town in there too.

[cloudofwit]

Man, I see a copy of Web of Mystery, Astonishing, and Fantastic Fears. Anyone make anything else out in the pile???

 

That might be VOODOO right under the WoM.

 

 

 

 

I HATE the burning of books. I remember when one of my older sisters got religious back in the 70's and attended a rock album burning. I hated that, too.

 

Reminds me of reading of that 1966 brouhaha over John Lennon's comments about the Beatles and Jesus that resulted in some Beatles vinyl going up in smoke in the Deep South of the U.S. (maybe elsewhere too, who knows). His comments were misconstrued, but once that fear starts, Lord have mercy.

 

Thanks for the link to the article, Mac Man. I'm looking forward to picking up a copy of the book.