1951 New York Legislative Report
1951 NY Report Page 59
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Exposed 7 Universal
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Grade:
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8.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0179801003
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Exposed #7 is referenced in the “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) as illustration #29. The SOTI illustration comes from a panel in the two page story “The Fatal Reflex” contained in Exposed #7. In this story, Herman Denzer is wronged by a business partner (Joe Gates) who abandons him in the wilderness after he is injured in a plane wreck. Denzer survives his ordeal but is bent on seeking revenge on Gates. Years later, Denzer murders Gates and arranges the room to make it appear as if Gates shot himself while cleaning his gun. A part of his deception includes escaping through a window that he rigs, using a string, to lock from the inside. His undoing is that he turns out the light and the cops figure out that he must have committed the crime because Gates wouldn’t be cleaning his gun in the dark. Fredric Wertham, the author of the SOTI, takes the panel that diagrams how Denier rigged the window to lock from the inside and places the caption “Diagram for housebreakers” under the illustration. Apparently Wertham believed that this diagram was describing how to break into a house. This is one of many examples where Wertham’s details and examples were in error or misrepresented. For further context, I have included a scan of the page that contains the panel that was referenced as Illustration #29 in the SOTI.
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