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	Title	Issue	Where used in SOTI
	A1 Guns of Fact and Fiction	13	Mentioned in text, p. 19.
	All-Famous Crime	9	Illo #32 with caption, "The wish to hurt or kill couples in Lovers' Lanes is a not uncommon perversion."
	All-Top	14	Illo #2 with caption, "Corpses of colored people strung up by their wrists."
	Authentic Police Cases	3	Illo #9 with caption, "Outside the forbidden pages of deSade, you find draining a girl's blood only in children's comics."; also used in text, p. 161 and 181 (both of which are not mentioned in Overstreet). Although this reprints Red Seal #16, it is likely that Wertham read this book and not Red Seal #16 because the SOTI page 161 reference does not appear in Red Seal #16. This is another instance where Wertham misquoted a comic. The text piece he cites is called "Lessons In Larceny", but Wertham calls it "Lessons For Larceny." See it all HERE!
	Authentic Police Cases	6	Illo #6 with caption, "An invitation to learning." This story was printed at least three times by St. John. Read about it here.
	Beware	6	Illo #31 with caption, "Children are first shocked and then desensitized by all this brutality."
	Batman	64	Used in SOTI, page 191. "The atmosphere is homosexual and anti-feminine. If the girl is good-looking she is undoubtedly the villainess. If she is after Bruce Wayne, she will have no chance against Dick. For instance, Bruce and Dick go out one evening in dinner clothes, dressed exactly alike. The attractive girl makes up to Bruce while in successive pictures young Dick looks on smiling, sure of Bruce."
	Batman	67	Possible use in SOTI, pp. 190-191: "Like the girls in other stories, Robin is sometimes held captive by the villains and Batman has to give in or 'Robin gets killed.'"
	Beware	12	Mentioned in text, p. 388.
	Beyond	27	Mentioned in text, p. 111.
	Black Cat Comics	27	Mentioned in text, p. 193.
	Black Cat Mystery	36	Mentioned in text, pp. 270-271.
	Black Cat Mystery	39	Mentioned in text, pp. 386-388.
	Blue Beetle	54	Illo #5 with caption, "Children call these 'headlights' comics."
	Blue Beetle	56	Mentioned in text, p. 145. The page Wertham cited was reprinted in Murder Incorporated #9. It's unclear which comic Wertham was citing.
	Brenda Starr	v2#4	Mentioned in text, p. 21.
	Bugs Bunny Four Color	250	Mentioned in text, p. 309.
	Captain Video	2	Mentioned in text, p. 382. Read about it here.
	Chamber of Chills	7	Mentioned in text, p. 389. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classic Comics Robinson Crusoe	10	Mentioned in text, p. 142. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classic Comics Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde	13	Mentioned in text, p. 143. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classic Comics Uncle Tom's Cabin	15	Mentioned in text, pp. 102, 103. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classics Illustrated Great Expectations	43	Mentioned in text, p. 311. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classics Illustrated Mysteries of Paris	44	Mentioned in text, p. 323. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classics Illustrated The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	50	Mentioned in text, p. 37. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classics Illustrated Silas Marner	55	Mentioned in text, p. 311, 312. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Classics Illustrated Julius Caesar	68	Mentioned in text, p. 36, 37. Read more at our Classics Illustrated page.
	Crime and Punishment	2	On the cover, a thief steals from a blind newsdealer. Possible SOTI book.
	Crime and Punishment	3	Mentioned in text, p. 112
	Crime and Punishment	59	Illo #12 with caption, "What comic-book America stands for."
	Crime and Punishment	16	From SOTI, pp. 98-99: When I pointed out the hypocrisy of the Crime does not pay slogan and its bad effect on children, the industry accused me of "unfairness" in attacking their highest endeavors and introduced some more slogan morality. In one comic book are two pages by a police captain attacking me: 'Don't let reformers kid you!' He is 'shocked by what I read today about the people who condemn crime comics. These people are the menace.' He goes on: 'Children don't like to be kicked around by reformers who want to decide what's good for them to read.' And he extols 'the strong moral force' that comics exert on children. See also Crime Does Not Pay #78, and read the details here.
	Crime Can't Win	10	Possible use in SOTI, p. 161
	Crime Clinic	3	Mentioned in text, p. 18
	Crime Detective	9	Illo #25 with caption, "Caricature of the author in a position comic-book publishers wish he were in permanently." Also used on p. 16.
	Crime Does Not Pay	63	Issues 63, 64- Possible use in SOTI, p. 306
	Crime Does Not Pay	78	From SOTI, pp. 98-99: When I pointed out the hypocrisy of the Crime does not pay slogan and its bad effect on children, the industry accused me of "unfairness" in attacking their highest endeavors and introduced some more slogan morality. In one comic book are two pages by a police captain attacking me: 'Don't let reformers kid you!' He is 'shocked by what I read today about the people who condemn crime comics. These people are the menace.' He goes on: 'Children don't like to be kicked around by reformers who want to decide what's good for them to read.' And he extols 'the strong moral force' that comics exert on children. See also Crime and Punishment 16, and read the details here.
	Crime Does Not Pay	64	Possible use in SOTI, p. 306
	Crime Files	5	Mentioned in text, p. 4
	Crime Reporter	2	Illo #8 with caption, "Children told me what the man was going to do with the red-hot poker."
	Crime Smashers	1	Illo #20 with caption, "A girl raped and murdered." Also used in text pp. 19-20.
	Crime SuspenStories	19	Mentioned in text, p. 235
	Crime SuspenStories	20	Illo #10 with caption, "Cover of a children's comic book."
	Crimes By Women	3	Mentioned in text, p. 234
	Crimes By Women	10	Mentioned in text, p. 72
	Dagar, Desert Hawk	19	Mentioned in text, p. 180
	Dagar, Desert Hawk	21	"Bombs & Bums Away" panel in "Flood of Death" used in SOTI, page 104. The page number is not noted in Overstreet.
	Dynamic Comics	17	Illo with caption, "Children told me what the man was going to do with the red-hot poker."
	Eerie Adventures	1	Mentioned in text, pp.317-318.
	Exposed	6	Illo #28 with caption, "How to prepare an alibi."
	Exposed	7	Illo #29 with caption, "Diagram for housebreakers." Breaking in or out? Read about it here.
	Famous Crimes	3	Mentioned in text, p. 112. Injury-to-the-eye motif.
	Famous Crimes	7	Mentioned in text, p. 44
	First Love Illustrated	35	Illo #30 with caption, "The title of this comic book is First Love."
	Frontier Romances	1	Illo #35 with caption, "Erotic spanking in a children's comic book." Overstreet indicates this was mentioned generally on p. 180. Page 180 reads: "In Western comic books, the erotic spanking of a girl by a man is frankly featured.”
	Frontier Romances	1	Illo #34 with caption, "Erotic spanking in a children's comic book." IW Reprint, reprints original Frontier Romances #1.
	Frontline Combat	4	Mentioned in text, p. 257
	Fugitives From Justice	3	Illo #6 with caption, "An invitation to learning." Reprints story from Authentic Police Cases #6 with new title and modified art. This story was printed at least three times by St. John. Read about it here.
	Giant Comics Edition	4	Illo #9 with caption, "Outside the forbidden pages of deSade, you find draining a girl's blood only in children's comics."; also used in text, p. 181. Re-packaging of Red Seal #16.
	Gang Busters	3	Illo with caption, "Comic-book map for crime."
	Harvey Comics Library	1	Mentioned in text, p. 27. Teen-Age Dope Slaves, which reprints a series of Rex Morgan, MD newspaper strips.
	Haunt Of Fear	17 (#3)	Mentioned in text, p. 43
	Haunt Of Fear	19	Illo #1 with caption, "A comic book baseball game. Notice the chest protector and other details in the text and pictures."
	Haunt Of Fear	23	This comic is no longer incorrectly listed in Overstreet as SOTI book.
	Hopalong Cassidy	5	Mentioned in text, pp. 308-309, although Wertham read this story in the Bond Bread giveaway, "Hopalong Cassidy and the Mad Barber."
	Hopalong Cassidy & the Mad Barber	nn	Used in SOTI, pp. 308,309
	Howdy Doody	6	Mentioned in text, p. 309
	Hunted	13	Illo #16 with caption, "Treating police contemptuously." This one-issue title was also mentioned in text p. 42.
	Ideal, A Classical Comic	3	Mentioned in text, p. 310. Overstreet erroneously lists this as p. 308.
	Inside Crime	2	Mentioned in text, p. 182, 183. Reprinted in Spook #24. It's unclear which of these books Wertham was referencing.
	Jon Juan	1	Mentioned in text, p. 38.
	Journey Into Fear	15	Mentioned in text, p. 389
	Jungle Comics	98	Illo #18 and #19 with caption, "In ordinary comic books there are pictures for children who know how to look." Also used in SOTI's text, p. 185
	Justice Traps the Guilty	13	Mentioned in text, p. 110-111.
	Justice Traps the Guilty	58	Illo #14 with caption, "Treating police contemptuously."
	Kewpies	1	One of the "lost SOTI" books that has been found. Now listed as SOTI reference in Overstreet due to the efforts of SeductionOfTheInnocent.org.
	Killers	1	Mentioned in SOTI, pgs 179, 180
	Law Against Crime	3	Illo with caption "The wish to hurt or kill couples in Lovers' Lanes is not an uncommon perversion. " Also mentioned in text, pp. 181. Overstreet erroneously indicates that this is also on p. 180. P. 181 states, "One picture shows a couple in an automobile, both the young man and the girl with blood streaming all over their faces from bullet holes in their heads. In the story the murderer was never caught."
	Lawbreakers Always Lose	7	Illo #3 with caption, "Comic-book philosophy."
	Martin Kane	4	Mentioned in text, p. 160. This reprints the story from Murder Incorporated #8 that Wertham mentioned. It's unclear which book Wertham was citing.
	Meet Corliss Archer	1	Title mentioned in text, p. 39, with the indication, "Adolescent boys call these headlight comics."
	Meet Corliss Archer	2	Title mentioned in text, p. 39, with the indication, "Adolescent boys call these headlight comics."
	Meet Corliss Archer	3	Title mentioned in text, p. 39, with the indication, "Adolescent boys call these headlight comics."
	Murder Incorporated	8	Mentioned in text, p. 160. This story was reprinted in Martin Kane #4. It's unclear which book Wertham was citing.
	Murder Incorporated	9	Mentioned in text, p. 145. This story reprints the page from Blue Beetle #56 that Wertham referenced. It's unclear which comic Wertham was citing.
	My Life (previously Meet Corliss Archer)	4	Mentioned in text, p. 39
	Mysterious Adventures	11	Mentioned in text, p. 84.
	Nightingale	nn	Mentioned in text, p. 312-313.
	Out of This World Adventures	2	Mentioned in text, p. 120. Not listed in Overstreet as SOTI. This is another of Wertham's errors. He incorrectly attributes a quote by the book's hero to its heroine.
	Perfect Crime	11	Mentioned in text, p. 159.
	Peter Penny and his Magic Dollar	nn	Mentioned in text, pp. 310, 311.Read more about it!
	Phantom Lady	17	Illo #4 with caption, "Sexual stimulation by combining 'headlights' with a sadist's dream of tying up a woman."
	Planet Comics	53	Mentioned in text, p. 32. Another of Wertham's errors: the word "mate" in the comic is quoted as "maid" by Wertham.
	Public Enemies	2	Mentioned in text, p. 95
	Real Clue	v3#9	Mentioned in text, p. 102
	Red Seal Comics	16	Illo #9 with caption, "Outside the forbidden pages of deSade, you find draining a girl's blood only in children's comics." Also used in text, p. 181.
	Reform School Girl	nn	Illo #37 with caption, "Comic books are supposed to be like fairy tales." Also mentioned in text, p. 358.
	Rulah, Jungle Goddess	21	Mentioned in text, p. 388, 389
	Rulah, Jungle Goddess	22	Mentioned in text, p. 22, 23
	Sensation Comics	81	Mentioned in text, p. 33, 34
	Shock SuspenStories	4	Mentioned in text, p. 387, 388
	Spook	24	Mentioned in text, p. 182, 183. Reprint of Inside Crime #2. It's unclear where Wertham saw the story.
	Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated	6	Mentioned in text, p. 22, 143
	Story of Harry S Truman	nn	Mentioned in text, p. 311
	Strange Adventures	39	Illo #15 with caption, "Treating police contemptuously."
	Strange Mysteries	10	Mentioned in text, p. 181
	Strange Worlds	2	Mentioned in text, p. 112. Injury-to-the-eye motif.
	Super Duck	22	Mentioned in text, pp. 35, 307, 308. This is a perfect example of Wertham's hypocrisy. On page 28, Super Duck is called without sarcasm one of the "harmlesss ones". Then on pages 35 and 307-308, he cites its harmful content.
	Superboy	2	Mentioned in text, pp. 35-36, 226
	Superman	55	Mentioned in text, p. 33
	Tegra, Jungle Empress	1	Mentioned in text, p. 31
	Terrifying Tales	15	Mentioned in text, pp. 22,23. This reprints story from Rulah #22. It's unclear which book Wertham was citing.
	Terrors of the Jungle	17	Mentioned in text, pp. 388-389. This reprints story from Rulah #21. It's unclear which book Wertham was citing.
	Thing	9	Illo #33 with caption, "Stomping on the face is a form of brutality children learn early." Also mentioned in text, p. 388.
	Tom Mix Western	9	Mentioned in text, pp. 323-325. Overstreet incorrectly implies that Tom Mix #10 is mentioned in SOTI. However, #10 was not referenced in SOTI.
	Top Secrets	7	Illo #21 with caption, "How to hurt people." Also used in text, p. 90.
	Trapped!	0	Mentioned in text, pp. 256, 350
	True Crime Comics	v1#2	Illo #11 with 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 illo #13 with caption, "A sample of the injury-to-the-eye motif.". Also used in text, pp. 81, 82. One story was reprinted in True Crime v2#1, and Wertham saw the story in both places.
	True Crime Comics	v1#4	Overstreet notes this as a SOTI book. That information appears to be incorrect.
	True Crime Comics	v2#1	Illo #11 with 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 used in text, pp. 81, 82. One story was reprinted from True Crime v1#2, and Wertham saw the story in both places.
	True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated	11	Mentioned in text, pp. 185-186.
	Tween Age Digest	1	Not a comic book per se, but a magazine with a comic section. From pages 120-121 of SOTI: A similar children's magazine, Tween Age Digest, at twenty-five cents, also looks like a regular magazine, but has comic-book sections. One of these is a supercondensed comic-book version of Don Quixote. You see him lying on the ground: "The servants beat Don Quixote mercilessly and although he swore vengeance he was helpless as a beetle on his back."
	Underworld	2	Mentioned in text, p. 95
	Wanted	12	Mentioned in text, p. 277
	Wanted	35	Mentioned in text, p. 160
	Web of Evil	1	Mentioned in text, p. 388
	Weird Fantasy	16	Mentioned in text, p. 144
	Weird Mysteries	7	Illo #35 with caption, "Indeed." Also illo #36 with caption,"Sex and blood."
	Weird Science	19	Illo #22, #23, #24 with 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	Mentioned in text, p. 30, 31. An example of the injury-to-the-eye motif.
	Wild Boy of the Congo	v1#10	Mentioned in text, p. 189
	Women Outlaws	1	Illo #7 with caption, "Giving children an image of American womanhood."
	World's Finest Comics	44	Mentioned in text, pp. 9, 190.
	Wonder Woman	49	Mentioned in text, p. 234, 236
	X-Mas Comics	6	One online resource says this contains a rebound Captain Video #1 and #2. Another online resource indicates that this was printed concurrently with the books contained in it, and it is not a rebinding of other books. Either way, this book contains Captain Video #2 and is therefore a SOTI book.
	Your United States	nn	Mentioned in text, pp. 309, 310. This book had several versions, although only one is mentioned in Overstreet. Read about it here.
	Zoot	14	Mentioned in text, p. 104.

 

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One chapter of Seduction of the Innocent was titled "Bumps and Bulges". In it, Dr. Wertham described some of the advertising that he found in what he deemed to be "children's" comic books. Below are some examples:
SOTI Reference	Example of the ad Wertham was describing
From SOTI, page 209, A full-page advertisement illustrated with photos of muscular he-men says: From a SKINNY WEAKLING to a MIGHTY MAN! . . . I gained 53 lbs. of MIGHTY MUSCLE. 6 and a half inches on my CHEST; 3 inches on each ARM. You can do it in 10 minutes a day! Presently the same advertisement appeared (December,1953) in a super-endorsed comic book with a public service page of the National Social Welfare Assembly. Now "Skinny" gains "70 lbs." of mighty muscle, his chest grows "7 inches" and his arms "3 and a half inches each"! This ad comes from Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #16.	This ad can be found in Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #16
On page 217 of SOTI, Dr. Wertham discusses what he describes as voyeur ads, including an ad for binoculars that indicates, Bring in distant people with amazing clarity and sharp detail . . . See without being seen . . . ($3.94) This ad from My Own Romance #16 doesn't contain that exact text, but is likely an ad for the same product.	This ad can be found in Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #16
On page 217 of SOTI, you'll find the following, One is for a course for boys on getting along with girls: It's Easy to Win Her! Women are funny - Put psychology to work. No more clumsy mistakes for you . . Don't be a Faux pas! This ad appears in Justice Traps the Guilty #25 and 31, among other places.
On page 210 of SOTI, Another ad advising you how to become "an all-around HE-MAN" says "Prove it to yourself in one night!" This ad comes from Justice Traps the Guilty #31.

 

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	Post-Code Reprints of SOTI Comics Most of these are not noted in Overstreet as SOTI books.
	Title	Issue	Where used in SOTI
	All EC's		Every EC book listed above was reprinted at least twice: once in the hardbound sets of the 70's and once in the 1990s' Russ Cochran reprints. Some were reprinted additional times as well.
	THE BEST OF HORROR & SCIENCE FICTION	nn	1990's (?) reprint of SOTI book
	BLACK CAT	63	Reprints "Black Cat's Judo Tricks", used in SOTI
	BLACK CAT	64	Reprints "Black Cat's Judo Tricks", used in SOTI
	BLACK CAT	65	Reprints "Black Cat's Judo Tricks", used in SOTI
	BLACK CAT: The Origins	1	Reprints Black Cat #27
	DREAM OF LOVE	8	Reprints two Jon Juan stories by Siegel and Schomburg, from Jon Juan #1
	GHOUL TALES	4	Reprints "The Way to a Man's Heart" from Weird Mysteries #7, renamed "Mother's Advice"
	JUNGLE ADVENTURES	12	Reprints Zoot #14. Thanks to eBay user atomic-age-man for informing us that this is a SOTI book.
	MR. MONSTER'S TRUE CRIME	2	Reprints True Crime #2
	SHOCK	V1#2	Reprints "More Deadly Than Male" from Weird Mysteries #7
	TEENAGED DOPE SLAVES AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS TPB	nn	Reprints a SOTI goldmine! Reform School Girl, Trapped! and Teenage Dope Slaves, as well as non-SOTI stories like Lucky Fights it Through and other gems!
	3-D SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT	2	Reprints "More Deadly Than Male" from Weird Mysteries #7, in 3-D

 

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All-Top #14

Authentic Police Cases #3

Authentic Police Cases #6

Black Cat Comics #27

Black Cat Mystery #36

Black Cat Mystery #39

Blue Beetle #56

Captain Video #2

Crime and Punishment #2

Crime and Punishment #3

Crime Does Not Pay #63

Crime Clinic #3

Chamber of Chills #7

Dagar, Desert Hawk #19

Jungle Comics #98

Martin Kane #4

Meet Corliss Archer #3

Murder Incorporated #8

Murder Incorporated #9

Out of this World Adventures #2

Planet Comics #53

Rulah #22

Strange Worlds #2

Tegra #1

Western Adventures #3

Women Outlaws #1

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