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 Classics Illustrated 68 (O)

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COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Classics Illustrated 68 Universal
Grade: 8.5
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 1970758010
Owner: GAM

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: Designed for Delinquency
Sets Competing: Classics Censored  Score: 114
Seduction Productions  Score: 114
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Classics Illustrated #68 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on pages 36-37.

Wertham believed that comic books based on classic literature debased the original work. He uses an example from Classics Illustrated #68 to emphasize this point “David Dempsey, writing in the New York Times Book Review, has said of the comic book Julius Caesar that it has ‘a Brutus that looks astonishingly like Superman. Our course will seem too bloody to cut the head off and then hack the limbs… says Brutus, in language, that sound like Captain Marvel…” and he notes that ‘Julius Caesar is followed by a story called ‘Tippy, the Terrier.’”.



 
 
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