Another tale about drug use from EC’s Shock SuspenStories #12 (September 1953): The Monkey. This one is a pretty brutal take on a young man who goes from marijuana user to heroin addict within a year. He ends up stealing from his parents who discover his habit. He storms out after hitting his father with […]
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Ah, another socially relevant, moral-driven Shock SuspenStory! “… and so shall ye reap!” appears in Shock SuspenStories #10 (June 1953) and tells the tale of a young man on death row who ruminates on his life choices at the same time that his parents do. The parents’ reflect in a positive way on how they […]
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The more colorful and super-powered Hourman, Rex “Tick-Tock” Tyler, debuted in Adventure Comics #48 (February 1940) alongside the other superhero in that book, The Sandman. He was created by writer Ken Fitch and artist Bernard Baily. Hourman got his powers from taking a bump of Miraclo, a pill that he invented that gave him super […]
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After The Claws of the Red Dragon, Bruce Nelson continued his “yellow peril” adventures in Detective Comics. Above shows a panel from the second chapter of “The Blood of the Lotus” in Detective Comics #10 (November 1937). In it, they depict the heroin being drugged (with opium presumably), perhaps the second time drug use was […]
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The Federal Men start the new year (January 1937) by taking a bite out of drugs, or something like that. Steve Carson takes on a “dope” ring and is captured and threatened with becoming an addict. Of course he escapes and arrests the ring leader. New Adventure Comics #13 also features a 12-page story “Foe […]
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