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Cool GA Crime

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Larryw7

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Why limit ourselves to covers - Exposed #2 has a particularly dull cover - but inside is one of the all time great pre-code crime splash pages.

 

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Oh [#@$%!!!] man he did in the dog too. I hate it when they do in the dog like that. I hope no one on the baords works for the FBI becuase I'm affraid they might put rj on some kind of watch list. BTW I think this book is an early origin story for the Joker.

 

EXPOSED #2 is truly one of the great Pre-Code books. I think I traded my copy to Steve Borock before he was the CGC man.

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Larryw7

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The whole story is nuts. I wish I had my copy, there are some amazing panels, including one of the giggling killer shooting some guy's eye out.

 

The last panel is cool too-the Giggling Killer screaming for mercy on the electric chair!

 

They just don't make 'em like they used to! cloud9.gifinsane.gif

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OldGuy

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You can't see it in the scan, but the "cigarette" box on the table says "Marijuana" and the vials say "Cocaine". I love this book.

 

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I like this cover also, with the razor, knife, rope, poison and gun on the table. Nice touch of bondage there as well.

 

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rjpb

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You can't see it in the scan, but the "cigarette" box on the table says "Marijuana" and the vials say "Cocaine".

 

I never noticed the marijuana cigs on the table - now I have an excuse to add this to my "marijuana story" want list. Does the story involve weed, or just heroin?

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october

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The whole story is nuts. I wish I had my copy, there are some amazing panels, including one of the giggling killer shooting some guy's eye out.

 

The last panel is cool too-the Giggling Killer screaming for mercy on the electric chair!

 

They just don't make 'em like they used to! cloud9.gifinsane.gif

 

27_laughing.gif Thats insane. Are these reprinted anywhere?

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rjpb

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Underworld True Crime Stories #3 has a fairly pedestrian cover, but the story 'The Widow of Death" about Belle Guiness is the sickest story I have ever seen in any pre-code comic, horror or crime. This is the most disturbing panel in a story loaded with violent images.

 

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Underworld True Crime Stories #3 has a fairly pedestrian cover, but the story 'The Widow of Death" about Belle Guiness is the sickest story I have ever seen in any pre-code comic, horror or crime. This is the most disturbing panel in a story loaded with violent images.

 

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Ugh! Is that a butcher knife through the kid's head?!?!! Or did she just whack him with something? Either way, a disturbing panel indeed!

Or is that Nanny 911? insane.gif

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rjpb

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Underworld True Crime Stories #3 has a fairly pedestrian cover, but the story 'The Widow of Death" about Belle Guiness is the sickest story I have ever seen in any pre-code comic, horror or crime. This is the most disturbing panel in a story loaded with violent images.

 

689727-uw3panel.jpg

 

Ugh! Is that a butcher knife through the kid's head?!?!! Or did she just whack him with something? Either way, a disturbing panel indeed!

Or is that Nanny 911? insane.gif

 

It's one of three panels in the story where you see Belle taking a butcher's knife to someones cranium. In the course of the story she also sets a cat on fire, pushes her baby brothers pram down a hill to his death, both when still a child. And a couple of stabbings are thrown in as well. How Wertham missed this one is beyond me.

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october

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Underworld True Crime Stories #3 has a fairly pedestrian cover, but the story 'The Widow of Death" about Belle Guiness is the sickest story I have ever seen in any pre-code comic, horror or crime. This is the most disturbing panel in a story loaded with violent images.

 

689727-uw3panel.jpg

 

Holy [#@$%!!!]! I need to get me some of this stuff....

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