Recalls a court case in which Dr. Fredric Wertham explains how he was able to purchase a whip from a comic book. He claims that teen-aged murderers were directly influenced by comic books.
There is an advertisement in this comic that illustrates the fact that even though this comic is filled with hyper-sexualized images as well violence and gore, it was geared towards children. The ad is for a mail-in-catalogue that features a number…
This is an advertisement that appears before the 1947 issue of Eerie #1. What is notable about this advertisement is that it is clearly geared towards boys in their very early teens, which is perhaps reflective of the gory and violent content of the…