CONFESSIONS ILLUSTRATED #1 * CGC 6.0 * EC Picto-Fiction

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Title: CONFESSIONS ILLUSTRATED No. 1
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: Gaines Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: January-February, 1956
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CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Bud Parke. Scripts: Al Feldstein, Daniel Keyes. Art: Jack Kamen, Johnny Craig, Joe Orlando, Wally Wood.

Tawdry tales of love gone wrong. EC's Code-dodging Picto-Fiction format allowed the freedom to depict scenarios too sordid for even the raunchiest pre-Code comics. In one story, a hooligan molests a teen girl, ripping her blouse and exposing her brassiered bosom ("One of them grabbed me and was suddenly kissing me. I felt his hands all over me. In a moment my dress was torn"); in another, a woman gets pregnant out of wedlock and gets a botched back-alley abortion, leaving her sterile.

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