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Title: WEIRD SCIENCE No. 19
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Publisher:Entertaining Comics
Date Published: May, 1953
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VG- (3.5). Edgewear; short tear; creases to top cover. Cream to off-white pages. Not a bad copy. Wally Wood cover. Art by Wood, Williamson/Frazetta, Orlando and Elder. Ray Bradbury biography and story ("The Precious Years").

Used in Dr. Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent: "A young girl on her wedding night stabs her sleeping husband to death with a hatpin...."

"...They targeted the American family, the good life, revered institutions. Framed by sardonic detective narrators or mocking Grand Guignol gatekeepers, their impact was deconstructive. Driven by a commercial 'hysteria' as they competed to attract buyers with increasingly atrocity-laden covers and stories, they both partook of and mocked the hysteria about them." -Tom Englehardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation [Basic: 1995].

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