Senator: Do you consider this cover to be in good
taste?
Mr Gaines: Yes, for the cover of a crime comic.
Classic!
Tim 'New Boy on the List' Bateman
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Zeltserman
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The objection to
Stansberry's "The Confession"
>
> Not to mention EC comics. Of course, EC became the
scapegoat of Dr.
> Werham's Seduction of the Innocent and the Senate
investigation of
the
> effect of comics on juvenile delinquency, for which
Wertham was an
> expert witness.
>
> Mark
During the hearing, William Gaines was shown the
cover of one of
comics showing a severed head being held by the
hair. When asked if he
thought the cover appropriate for the youth of
our country, his answer
was (paraphrasing): if the head was held higher
so you could see the
blood dripping, then probably not but as it is
it's fine. Of course,
all this is fairly tame compared to Sin
City.
Dave z.
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