COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Classic Comics 10 Universal
Grade: 8.0
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0032086002
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: Designed for Delinquency
Sets Competing: Seduction Productions  Score: 149
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Classic Comics #10 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on page 142. Wertham found little redeeming value in comics based on classic literature. Among the faults he found with this genre of comics is his belief that these comics inhibited children from reading classic books.He describes this perspective on page 142 and mentions Robinson Crusoe as an example “For many children, the entire concept of a book is concerned with comic books. I have yet to see a child who was influenced to read ‘classics’ or ‘famous authors’ in the original by reading them in comic-book versions. What happens instead is that the comic-book version cuts the children off from this source of pleasure, entertainment and education. Typical is the case of the eleven year old boy of superior intelligence, from a good social and economic background, who exhibited the ‘classics’ comic-book version of Robinson Crusoe with these words: ‘Why should I read the real book if I have this? If I had to make a report I could use this. It would leave out all the boring details that would be in a book.’”


 
 
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