I couldn't keep myself together to list an eighth example, I had to logoff

The great attraction of crime comic books for children is alleged to be continuous fast action. There may be some. But when the stories come to details of a delinquency or depiction of brutality, the action slows noticeably. A typical example, vintage autumn, 1950: In one story there are thirty-seven pictures, of which twelve (this is, one in three) show brutal near-rape scenes. The story begins like this:

"LATE ONE NIGHT, IN THE SUBURBS OF A LARGE CITY, THE MOON LOOKS DOWN ON THE FIGURE OF A LONE GIRL AS SHE WALKS ALONG A BLOCK OF SLUMBERING HOMES . . . ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT THIS HOUR!"

Forthwith it does, for example:

1) The girl walking along with a dark figure, his arms stretched out toward her, lurking behind.

2) The girl falling over, her breast prominent, her skirt thrown up to reveal black net panties, the "attacker" a black, shadowed figure leaning over her.

3) He "drags her into the gloom," holding his hand over her mouth and tearing off her coat.

4) He has her on the ground behind some bushes.

5) A girl, murdered and presumably raped, is shown on the ground with her clothes disordered and torn.

6) Another girl being choked from behind. Screams: "AI-EEEK!!"

7) "The Strangler" locks her in a warehouse, saying: "I'll kill you just like I did the others—Then I'll crawl down the trap door and get away under the dock—HA! HA!"

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