Number 1665: Gotta have a plan

After all these years I can still be surprised. My surprise today is that the innocent looking panel above, from DC’s Gang Busters #3 (1948), is reproduced in the infamous anti-comics book, Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Fredric Wertham, MD. Hats off to Seduction of the Innocent.org for posting it. Thanks!

Okay, Doc, I see your point. Does a kid get some credit for being prepared? He would learn how to draw a diagram from school, anyway, so you’re stretching, but it’s still a point.

The story from which the panel is lifted is “The Crime of the Century,” fairly standard crime comic fare, drawn by George Roussos.

More from Seduction of the Innocent in these three posts. Just click on the thumbnails.

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An interesting coincidence: after finishing this post I watched a DVD of the 1949 movie, Gun Crazy (nothing like a film noir crime classic movie after reading crime comics). I made a screen capture from a scene of the Bonnie and Clyde-like couple drawing up a diagram for a plan to rob a meat packing plant. Did Dr Wertham see this?

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