tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post3575287424469120059..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1388: Tough guy TuskaPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-10372208472946494292013-06-23T07:01:21.798-07:002013-06-23T07:01:21.798-07:00More occasion for me to say “What th—?”More occasion for me to say “<i>What th—?</i>”Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-41500466256472895722013-06-21T13:58:41.319-07:002013-06-21T13:58:41.319-07:00Daniel, my feeling is they were just reflecting ga...Daniel, my feeling is they were just reflecting gangster movies, "true" crime magazines and detective pulps of the era. They were presenting the same sort of material in panel form in comic books.<br /><br />As far as social and moral disorientation, some of that was evident with editor Bob Wood, who was said to beat on his girlfriends, and later killed one during a drunken binge in the '50s.<br /><br />Crime, death, torture...hell, it's all just entertainment, isn 't it? You see it every night on television. <br /><br />I'm not saying your observations on Biro and Gleason (and Wood) aren't accurate, but in an inverted world of salacious and sensational literature they were giving the public what it wanted. I agree that they were "faking a commitment to wholesomeness." And critics of crime comics saw through that, too. <br /><br />By the way, I've scheduled more sleaze and social and moral disorientation from the Gleason-Biro-Wood-Tuska gang in August, Daniel! <br /><br /> Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-57910810174056674652013-06-21T01:44:28.780-07:002013-06-21T01:44:28.780-07:00As far as I'm concerned, this story is just on...As far as I'm concerned, this story is just one more exemplar of the <i>social and moral disorientation</i> of Gleason and Biro. Whether they were sincere or just faking a commitment to wholesomeness, they just had this <i>freakish misunderstanding</i> of the psychology and values of ordinary human beings! That doesn't work to much against them when portraying the mind-sets of criminals (who tend likewise not to understand such things), but nobody in their worlds isn't wack, and the moral presumptions of the narration are at best perverse.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com