Magazine Village
Magazine Village company single title publisher, In 1947 they published what would become of the most notorious comics in history, True Crime Comics, designed and edited by Jack Cole. The first issue (#2) featured Cole’s “Murder, Morphine, and Me”, the story of a young female drug addict who became involved with gangsters. The story would become one of the most controversial of the period and samples of the art, including a panel from a dream sequence in which the heroine has her eye held open and threatened with a hypodermic needle, would be used in articles and books (like Geoffrey Wagner’s Parade of Pleasure) about the pernicious influence and obscene imagery of crime comics.
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