Anti Comic Propoganda 2 2

[welcomebackpotter]

Some of the things I like to collect are anti comic propoganda. If you have any please post them.

 

The first item has to be:

 

Seduction of the Innocent (1st print- no bibliography)

 

Wertham gave this away at a 1953 Baptist convention. Its a general overview of SOTI.

 

[welcomebackpotter]

Love and Death (2nd Printing)

 

 

Parade of Pleasure

 

[welcomebackpotter]

My last 2 items are religous items.

 

Awake (June 22, 1983)

 

Christian Century (October 12, 1949)

 

[welcomebackpotter]

From the Awake booklet

 

[buttock]

I have a book stuffed away somewhere from the mid-80s entitled "Seduction of the Innocent - Revisited" that was another attempt like Wertham. Obviously not as effective.

[PokerKid]

Here are the bibliography pages (I paid an extra $250 to get a copy with this page to go with my redacted copy! What was I thinking?!?)

 

By the way, if you have never read the book, you really should. It is very well written and is fascinating, even if unconvincing.

 

Biblio ---------------------- no Biblio

 

[Ares]

why did they rip out the Bibliography?

I cant remember

[PokerKid]

why did they rip out the Bibliography?

I cant remember

 

My understanding was fear of lawsuits, but that is one of the reasons people use bibliographies (to give credit and avoid lawsuits). No explanation ever made much sense, but they are tough to find with the page intact, so it was removed early on.

[Duffman_Comics]

Legend has it staff were dispatched by the publisher to bookstores to physically excise the offending page from books already on the vendors' shelves.

 

Hence the rarity.

[CAP Freak]

Legend has it staff were dispatched by the publisher to bookstores to physically excise the offending page from books already on the vendors' shelves.

 

Hence the rarity.

I've only seen one copy of it with a bibliography at SD:CC in 2004 at a dealers booth. I was told of its rarity but I thought it was a sales pitch and didn't give a darn

[Ares]

Legend has it staff were dispatched by the publisher to bookstores to physically excise the offending page from books already on the vendors' shelves.

 

Hence the rarity.

I think that one makes alot of sence.

My Copy has a page at 399 ripped out..

 

I should start reading the whole book. I read part of it and stopped.

 

How does one tell if its a 1st print or a 2nd print?

Pretty sure mine is a second print but want to be sure

[PokerKid]

Legend has it staff were dispatched by the publisher to bookstores to physically excise the offending page from books already on the vendors' shelves.

 

Hence the rarity.

I think that one makes alot of sence.

My Copy has a page at 399 ripped out..

 

I should start reading the whole book. I read part of it and stopped.

 

How does one tell if its a 1st print or a 2nd print?

Pretty sure mine is a second print but want to be sure

 

I believe this one with the bibliography page is a first print. The second printing I have is noted on the dust jacket and the R with the circle around it is missing on the publisher's page.

 

 

[Ares]

Thats looks liek a copy I have..

The copyright 1953, 1954 threw me and I assumed it was a second print..

I might have a 1st print after all.. thanks

[Duffman_Comics]

Legend has it staff were dispatched by the publisher to bookstores to physically excise the offending page from books already on the vendors' shelves.

 

Hence the rarity.

I've only seen one copy of it with a bibliography at SD:CC in 2004 at a dealers booth. I was told of its rarity but I thought it was a sales pitch and didn't give a darn

 

For a young man you are becoming very cynical.

 

I am proud of you (thumbs u

[Ares]

After soem research if it has the Colophon its a 1st print.

 

[llll-migration]

COLLIER'S MAGAZINE, MARCH 27, 1948

"Horror in the Nursery" - The comics and juvenile delinquency, as seen by a psychiatrist.

 

$0.99 on ebay + $2.33 shipping

 

Edited October 26, 2008 by llll

[llll-migration]

Reader's Digest - May 1954; Vol. 64, No. 385

"Comic Books -- Blueprints for Delinquency!" by Fredric Wertham

("When will we wake up to the frightful harm being done by Crime Comics?")

 

Edited October 26, 2008 by llll

[Ogami]

bookmarking this thread.

[llll-migration]

American Mercury - AUGUST, 1955; Vol. LXXXI, NO. 379

"The Comic Book Problem" by Ruth A. Iglis.

("When purveyors of inexpensive depravity reach millions of children,

their business becomes everybody's business")

 

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Reader's Digest - August 1948; Vol. 53, No. 316

"The Comics ... Very Funny" by Fredric Wertham

("Do You Think That Comic Books Which Stress Murder and Mayhem

and Blood And Thunder Are Good Fare for Youngsters?")