{"id":2250,"date":"2020-04-09T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2024-12-05T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T07:43:08","slug":"363-official-true-delinquency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/363-official-true-delinquency\/","title":{"rendered":"363 &#8211; Official True Delinquency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/true-crime.png\" alt=\"A panel from Official True Crime Cases #24, June 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/true-crime.png 610w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/true-crime-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A panel from Official True Crime Cases #24, June 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2263\">Once again<\/a>, a Timely (Marvel) superhero comics is completely renamed and has its genre changed:  &#8220;Sub-Mariner Comics&#8221; becomes &#8220;Official True Crime Cases&#8221; with issue #24 (June 1947).  Crime stories, like &#8220;teen humor&#8221; and &#8220;funny animal&#8221; comics were increasingly popular in the 1940s.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_comics\">crime comics<\/a> genre was started with Lev Gleason&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_Does_Not_Pay_(comics)\">Crime Does Not Pay<\/a>&#8221; back in 1942 and Timely Comics seems eager to cash in on the trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stories featured lots of violence, including both criminals and cops shooting people at point-blank range and violence against women. Scanning through some of these stories, it becomes clear why <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fredric_Wertham\">Wertham<\/a>, and later the Senate, decided to target crime and horror comic books as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_Subcommittee_on_Juvenile_Delinquency\">cause for juvenile delinquency<\/a> in the 1950s. The stories are shocking and brutal and presented in a realistic manner &#8211; these things happened.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/true-hanging.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Official True Crime Cases #24, June 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/true-hanging.png 490w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/true-hanging-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Another panel from Official True Crime Cases #24, June 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, a Timely (Marvel) superhero comics is completely renamed and has its genre changed: &#8220;Sub-Mariner Comics&#8221; becomes &#8220;Official True Crime Cases&#8221; with issue #24 (June 1947). Crime stories, like &#8220;teen humor&#8221; and &#8220;funny animal&#8221; comics were increasingly popular in the 1940s. The crime comics genre was started with Lev Gleason&#8217;s &#8220;Crime Does Not Pay&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[363,385,389,386,388,90,92,396,387],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-363","tag-crime-comics","tag-genre-change","tag-juvenile-delinquency","tag-lev-gleason","tag-marvel","tag-namor","tag-superhero-collapse","tag-wertham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}