Transcript:
Charlie Brown: I’m discouraged today, and when I get discouraged, A comic magazine is the only thing that will revive me.
Charlie Brown: What a beautiful gory layout!
Charlie Brown: This druggist is awfully fussy…He won’t let you look at the comic magazines unless you by one…
Charlie Brown: Gee, The cover came off this one…I hardly jerked it!
Charlie Brown: Those on the top row look pretty good…
Charlie Brown: WHOOPS!
Charlie Brown: He should sell these for half price…Who wants a magazine after it’s been laying around on the floor?
Charlie Brown: I guess I’ll take this one…
Charlie Brown: Bot, did he ever glare at me! He probably isn’t feeling well…
Original comic:
The violent names and nature of some comic books at the time were epitomized by EC Comics and criticized by Fredric Wertham in his book Seduction of the Innocent.