Golden Age SOTI Comic Books

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  Title Issue Where used in SOTI
A1 Guns of Fact and Fiction #13 13 SOTI text mention page 19.
-All-Famous Crime #9 9 SOTI illustration. Caption: "The wish to hurt or kill couples in Lovers' Lanes is a not uncommon perversion."
All-Top #14 14 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Corpses of colored people strung up by their wrists."
Authentic Police Cases #3 3

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Outside the forbidden pages of deSade, you find draining a girl's blood only in children's comics."

Also SOTI text pages 161 and 181.

Reprints Red Seal #16.

Authentic Police Cases #6 6 SOTI illustration. Caption: "An invitation to learning."
Authentic Police Cases #27   Contains rebound Fugitives from Justice #3
Beware #6 here and here 6 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Children are first shocked and then desensitized by all this brutality."
Beware #12 12 SOTI text mention page 388.
Beyond #27 27 SOTI text mention page 111.
Black Cat Comics #27 27 SOTI text mention page 193.
Black Cat Mystery #36 36 SOTI text mention pages 270-271.
Black Cat Mystery #39 39 Mentioned in text, pp. 386-388.
Blue Beetle #54 54 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Children call these 'headlights' comics."
Blue Beetle #56 56 SOTI text mention page 145. Page Wertham cited reprinted in Murder Incorporated #9.
Brenda Starr V.2 #4 v2#4 SOTI text mention page 21.
Bugs Bunny Four Color #250 250 SOTI text mention page 309.
Captain Video #2 2 SOTI text mention page 382.
Chamber of Chills #7 7 SOTI text mention page 389.
Classic Comics #10: Robinson Crusoe 10 SOTI text mention page 142.
Classic Comics #13: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde #13 13 SOTI text mention page 143.
Classic Comics #15: Uncle Tom's Cabin 15 SOTI text mention pages 102, 103.
Classic Comics #43: Great Expectations 43 SOTI text mention page 311.
Classic Comics #44: Mysteries of Paris 44 SOTI text mention page 323.
Classics Illustrated #50: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 50 SOTI text mention page 37
Classics Illustrated #55: Silas Marner 55 SOTI text mention pages 311, 312
Classics Illustrated #68: Julius Caesar 68 SOTI text mention pages 36, 37
Crime and Punishment #2 2 Thief steals from a blind newsdealer on cover. Possible SOTI book.
Crime and Punishment #3 3 SOTI text mention page 112
Crime and Punishment #59 59 SOTI illustration. Caption: "What comic-book America stands for."
Crime Can't Win #10 10 Possible SOTI text mention page 161
Crime Clinic #3 3 SOTI text mention page 18
Crime Detective #9 9

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Caricature of the author in a position comic-book publishers wish he were in permanently."

Also SOTI text mention page 16.

Crime Does Not Pay #63 63 Possible SOTI text mention page 306
Crime Does Not Pay #64 64 Possible SOTI text mention page 306
Crime Files #5 5 SOTI text mention page 4
Crime Reporter #2 2 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Children told me what the man was going to do with the red-hot poker."
Crime Smashers #1 1 SOTI illustration. Caption: "A girl raped and murdered." Also used in text pp. 19-20.
Crime SuspenStories #19 19 SOTI text mention page 235
Crime SuspenStories #20 20 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Cover of a children's comic book."
Crimes By Women #3 3 SOTI text mention page 234
Crimes By Women #10 10 SOTI text mention page 72
Dagar, Desert Hawk #19 19 SOTI text mention page 180
Dagar, Desert Hawk #21 21 "Bombs and Bums Away" panel in "Flood of Death" used in SOTI.
Dynamic Comics #17 17 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Children told me what the man was going to do with the red-hot poker."
Eerie Adventures #1 and here 1 SOTI text mention pages 317-318.
Exposed #6 6 SOTI illustration. Caption: "How to prepare an alibi."
Exposed #7 7 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Diagram for housebreakers."
Famous Crimes #3 3 SOTI text mention page 112. Injury-to-the-eye motif.
Famous Crimes #7 7 SOTI text mention page 44
First Love Illustrated #35 35 SOTI illustration. Caption: "The title of this comic book is First Love."
Frontier Romances #1 1

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Erotic spanking in a children's comic book."

Possible SOTI text mention page 180.

Frontier Romances #1 (reprint) 1

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Erotic spanking in a children's comic book."

Reprints original Frontier Romances #1.

Frontline Combat #4 4 SOTI text mention page 257
Fugitives From Justice #3 (see Authentic Police Cases #27) 3

SOTI illustration. Caption: "An invitation to learning."

Reprints story from Authentic Police Cases #6 with new title and modified art.

Giant Comics Edition #4 (reprint of Red Seal #16) 4

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Outside the forbidden pages of deSade, you find draining a girl's blood only in children's comics."

Also SOTI text mention page 181.

Re-packaging of Red Seal #16.

Harvey Comics Library #1 1 SOTI text mention page 27.

Haunt Of Fear #17

(#3)

17 (#3) SOTI text mention page 43
Haunt Of Fear #19 19 SOTI illustration. Caption: "A comic book baseball game. Notice the chest protector and other details in the text and pictures."
Hopalong Cassidy #5 5 SOTI text mention page 308-309
Hopalong Cassidy & the Mad Barber nn SOTI text mention pages 308-309
Howdy Doody #6 6 SOTI text mention page 309
Hunted #13 13

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Treating police contemptuously."

Also SOTI text mention page 42.

Ideal, A Classical Comic #3 3 SOTI text mention page 310.
Inside Crime #2 2

SOTI text mention pages 182-183.

Reprined in Spook #24.

Jon Juan #1 1 SOTI text mention page 38.
Journey Into Fear #15 and here 15 SOTI text mention page 389
Jungle Comics #98 98

SOTI illustrations. Caption: "In ordinary comic books there are pictures for children who know how to look."

Also SOTI text mention page 185

Justice Traps the Guilty #13 13 SOTI text mention pages 110-111.
Justice Traps the Guilty #58 58 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Treating police contemptuously."
Kewpies #1 1 SOTI mention?
Killers #1 and here 1 SOTI text mention pages 179-180
Law Against Crime #3 3

SOTI illustration. Caption: "The wish to hurt or kill couples in Lovers' Lanes is not an uncommon perversion. "

Also SOTI text mention page 181.

Lawbreakers Always Lose #7 7 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Comic-book philosophy."
Martin Kane #4 4

SOTI text mention page 160.

Reprints the story from Murder Incorporated #8.

Meet Corliss Archer #1 1 SOTI text mention page 39, with the indication, "Adolescent boys call these headlight comics."
Meet Corliss Archer #2 2 SOTI text mention page 39, with the indication, "Adolescent boys call these headlight comics."
Meet Corliss Archer #3 3 SOTI text mention page 39, with the indication, "Adolescent boys call these headlight comics."
Murder Incorporated #8 8

SOTI text mention page 160.

Reprinted in Martin Kane #4.

Murder Incorporated #9 9

SOTI text mention page 145.

Reprints the page from Blue Beetle #56 Wertham referenced.

My Life #4 (previously Meet Corliss Archer) 4 SOTI text mention page 39
Mysterious Adventures #11 11 SOTI text mention page 84.
Nightingale nn SOTI text mention pages 312-313.
Out of This World Adventures #2 2 SOTI text mention page 120.
Perfect Crime #11 11 SOTI text mention page 159.
Peter Penny and his Magic Dollar nn SOTI text mention pages 310-311.
Phantom Lady #17 17 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Sexual stimulation by combining 'headlights' with a sadist's dream of tying up a woman."
Planet Comics #53 53 SOTI text mention page 32.
Public Enemies #2 2 SOTI text mention page 95
Real Clue v3#9 v3#9 SOTI text mention page 102
Red Seal Comics #16 16

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Outside the forbidden pages of deSade, you find draining a girl's blood only in children's comics."

Also SOTI text mention page 181.

Reform School Girl nn

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Comic books are supposed to be like fairy tales."

Also SOTI text mention page 358.

Rulah, Jungle Goddess #21 and here 21 SOTI text mention pages 388-389
Rulah, Jungle Goddess #22 22 SOTI text mention pages 22-23
Sensation Comics #81 81 SOTI text mention pages 33-34
Shock SuspenStories #4 4 SOTI text mention pages 387-388
Spook #24 24

SOTI text mention page 182-183.

Reprints Inside Crime #2.

Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated #6 6 SOTI text mention pages 22, 143
Story of Harry S Truman nn SOTI text mention page 311
Strange Adventures #39 39 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Treating police contemptuously."
Strange Mysteries #10 10 SOTI text mention page 181
Strange Worlds #2 2 SOTI text mention page 112
Super Duck #22 22 SOTI text mention pages 35, 307-308
Superboy #2 2 SOTI text mention pages 35-36, 226
Superman #55 55 SOTI text mention page 33
Tegra, Jungle Empress #1 1 SOTI text mention page 31
Terrifying Tales #15 (reprint from Rulah #22) 15

SOTI text mention page 22,23.

Reprints story from Rulah #22.

Terrors of the Jungle #17 (reprint from Rulah #21) 17

SOTI text mention pages 388-389.

Reprints story from Rulah #21.

Thing #9 and here 9

SOTI illustration. Caption: "Stomping on the face is a form of brutality children learn early."

Also SOTI text mention page 388.

Tom Mix Western #9 9 SOTI text mention pages 323-325.
Top Secrets #7 7 SOTI illustration. Caption: "How to hurt people." Also used in text, p. 90.
Trapped! 0 SOTI text mention pages 256, 350
True Crime Comics v1#2 (reprints) v1#2

SOTI illustrations. Caption: "Pity was the keynote when Homer described dragging a dead body behind a chariot. Dragging living people to death is described without pity in children's comics." Also caption, "A sample of the injury-to-the-eye motif.".

Also SOTI text mention page 81-82.

One story reprinted in True Crime v2#1.

True Crime Comics v1#4 v1#4 SOTI book?
True Crime Comics v2#1 v2#1

SOTI illustration. Caption:"Pity was the keynote when Homer described dragging a dead body behind a chariot. Dragging living people to death is described without pity in children's comics."

Also SOTI text mention pages 81-82.

One story reprinted from True Crime v1#2.

Underworld #2 2 SOTI text mention page 95
Wanted #12 12 SOTI text mention page 277
Wanted #35 35 SOTI text mention page 160
Web of Evil #1 1 SOTI text mention page 388
Weird Fantasy #16 16 SOTI text mention page 144
Weird Mysteries #7 (partial) 7 SOTI illustrations. Caption: "Indeed." Also caption: "Sex and blood."
Weird Science #19 19 SOTI illustrations. Caption: "A young girl on her wedding night stabs her sleeping husband to death with a hatpin when she realizes that he comes from a distant planet and is a 'mammal'."
Western Adventures #3 3 SOTI text mention page 30-31.
Wild Boy of the Congo v1#10 v1#10 SOTI text mention page 189
Women Outlaws #1 1 SOTI illustration. Caption: "Giving children an image of American womanhood."
Wonder Woman #49 49 SOTI text mention pages 234, 236
X-Mas Comics #6 (reprints Captain Video #2) 6 Reprints Captain Video #2.
Your United States (one shot) nn SOTI text mention pages 309-310.
Zoot #14 and here 14 SOTI text mention page 104.