Tuesday, September 5, 2017

When Every Page Would Kill You!!

In the early 1950s, Fawcett was fully on board the lurid crime comic bandwagon.

And talk about your hard sell--check out the covers, and especially the scare-you-to-death blurbs!





Dude, I don't think I'm old enough to read these "every page will cause you terror" comics!!

It wasn't just the covers--they kept up the pressure on the inside--with the house ads!



Oh, and there were other titles, too:



All pretty grisly stuff...but the 5 issues of Suspense Detective really poured on the terror/hype.

The last issue of Suspense Detective was in early 1953. This was shortly before Fawcett folded their comics business--thanks, DC!--so it managed to avoid being singled out in upcoming anti-crime comic furor.

Still:





Watch out for these comics if you have a weak heart!!
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1 comment:

  1. -3-September 5, 2017 at 10:54 PM

    Wow. I totally missed this savage side of Fawcett. Pretty dramatic contrast to the old crime comics i've been reading, like Justice Traps The Guilty, Police Trap, Headline Comics, etc.,.
    Makes me wonder what else they were up to towards the end there. Thanks for (yet) another pointer on where to go digging on my comic archeology expeditions.

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