There are no good modern studies on childhood prostitution, although the case material for such a study is unfortunately not lacking. The whole subject is hushed up, just as juvenile drug addiction was until recently. Childhood prostitution is always due to neglect by the family (which often cannot help itself) and by social agencies. It is on the increase at present. Comic books do their share in laying the psychological groundwork.
Annie, aged ten, engaged in sex play with men for which she received money. Like most children she was very suggestible. From comic books she absorbed fantasies of violence and sex, but the few constructive things she saw, like the movie about Sister Kenny, stimulated her to the constructive fantasy of becoming a nurse.
"I fooled around with men, young men and old men. They gave me a dollar. I don't have my period yet. They just took down my pants. I meet the men on the docks. They did it in a shady house, a house that has all kinds of tools in it - hammers. I went over there four times a week. I don't like it. Girls don't like it. I did it for the money. Sometimes I would get half a dollar, sometimes a quarter. Some men don't give you anything. Cheap, ain't they!"
This girl read about twenty comic books a day. Some of them she read over three or four times. After she saw the 1946 movie Sister Kenny (directed by Dudley Nichols)
she formed the ideal of becoming “a nurse who cures the people.”
But one good movie could not prevail over hundreds of comic books.
Other varieties follow the pattern of adult-organized prostitution, except that the girls get younger and younger and sometimes the purveyors do, too. A girl of seventeen supplied schoolgirls of twelve to fourteen to middle-aged men. She had about twenty-five girls. The official investigation, which was far from thorough, estimated that at least fifty adult men were involved. The seventeen-year-old girl got $1.50 to $2.00 from each customer. But she gave the girls only a quarter or fifty cents.
Fred’s Video Collection
The 17 Technicolor Fleischer Superman cartoons were released by Paramount Pictures on 26 September 1941, making them the Man of Steel's first (and best?) animated appearance.
After the Fleischers were removed from the company, Paramount renamed the organization Famous Studios, placing Seymour Kneitel (Max Fleischer's son-in-law), Isadore Sparber, Sam Buchwald, and Dan Gordon in charge of production. The sleek look of the series continued, but there was a noticeable change in the storylines of the later shorts of the series.
"The Joker Went Wild" was written by Bobby Russell and performed by Brian Hyland. In 1966, the track only reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100. Still, it’s a pretty solid tune for the purposes of this drastically recut montage. (I tried to remove all the gunplay whenever possible.)