Super porn.

• Author: Doherty, Brian
• Position: Briefly Noted - Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster - Brief article - Book review

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Do-gooder psychiatrist Fredric Wertham famously declared that the comics of the 1940s and '50s were rife with sadistic and perverted sexual themes. Craig Yoe's book Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster (Abrams) shines a strange new light on that theme.

In 1954 Shuster, down on his luck after making a bad deal selling ownership of Superman to DC Comics, illustrated a series of cheap and lurid sex and bondage pamphlets called Nights o[Horror. Those pamphlets were later implicated in a series of notorious youth-gang murders and then banned and destroyed by New York...