The person posting the bids online has to be the person who has registered for the auction. Priceless.'Īll accepted bids are contracts and are considered final and non withdrawable.Ī buyer's premium of 20% will be applied to all purchases. I especially enjoyed the reviews of the post-war horror comics. This is some of the best commentary I’ve yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books. Crumb says, 'I found so interesting that I am saving it for the texts that accompany the comics which were put up for auction. To order, contact or visit: /content/ comics/. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. Over 200 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. The jacket is an integral part of this book's appeal, as many of the comics listed in Overstreet as 'used in PoP' are used only on the jacket photo.Ī limited edition of 100 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues are available. PoP is a much scarcer book, however, and it's especially challenging to find with the dust jacket. Parade of Pleasure is often considered a sort of unofficial companion to Seduction of the Innocent, as Wertham and Wagner shared the same concerns about media effects on youth. Lent's Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign (Farleigh Dickinson: 1999). Parliament debated the scourge of American comics in 1951-52, with much concern about the 'Americanisation of British Culture,' as related by Martin Barker in John A. It is useful to pre-Code scholars mostly for its insights into the international response to Yankee comics, which, despite import bans, traveled the globe with alarming ease. Parade of Pleasure was released in the UK in 1954 but wasn't released in the States until 1955, after the advent of the Comics Code, limiting its influence on American readers. liberally bedewed with drops of carefully drawn and coloured blood'), fascistic overtones ('Batman is another of these Fuhrer incarnations, hooded, begauntleted with a strong right in place of the normal processes of the law'), and the propaganda and racism of war comics ('Dirty gook buzzards! I'll show you crummy bums how a man fights a war!'). 34 attempted rape of a pretty girl who, to elude the monster, throws herself out of the window.' He also inveighs against comic-book misogyny ('The booklet shows a girl's hand being amputated by an axe. Still, a better than usual copy of an increasingly uncommon book, in the rare dust jacket.īritish-born New Yorker Geoffrey Wagner rails against American mass media, including comics, which he calls 'the marijuana of the nursery.' After first responding to Bill Gaines' notorious 'Are You a Red Dupe' editorial as printed in Haunt of Fear #26 ('Now it is apparently considered 'Communist' to criticise comic-books in the USA today'), Wagner attacks EC with special gusto: ' Tales from the CRYPT specialises in necrophiliac stories.

Jacket is heavily chipped, particularly the rear panel, which has losses of about 1/3rd and some tape repairs to verso cloth binding has white residue to bottom edge of front panel crossed-out ownership inscription to front pastedown, water-warp to top corner of textblock.

(8vo) red cloth, cover vignette in gilt, with illustrated dust jacket. of black & white and color reproductions of comic book covers and pages.

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