Exposed No. 5: Museum Object and Cultural History
Exposed No. 5: date made: 1948. Object Name: comic book. Associated Place: United States: New York, Brooklyn.
The object in the museum catalogue
The cover of Exposed No.5 touts the comic's contents as "Cases in the Crusade Against Crime". It features the stories "Hot Zircon"; "The Bride Was Dead"; "Professor Poop's Invention"; Studio Murder, A True Crime Puzzle"; "Confession!"; "The Case of the Telltale Bullet" ; "The Body on the Beach"; "Double Handicap"; and "The Dock Killers." Contributors include Walter Johnson, Bob Jenney, Edmond Good and Red Holmdale.
Made before the advent of the Comic Code, D.S. Publishing's "Exposed" related violent and lurid true-crime stories.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1948
- Object Name: comic book
- Associated Place: United States: New York, Brooklyn
- Subject: Comics
- Subject: Criminology
- ID Number: 2011.3085.076
- nonaccession number: 2011.3085
- catalog number: 2011.3085.076
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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